Lenehan Architectural Glass
The project is a 26 story condo complex in the South of Market area of SF.
They put the parking garage above ground and the city required that they do something to upgrade that portion of the building so it does not look like a parking garage.
That is where the art portion came in.
Here in SF, as in many cities around the country, there is 1 percent of the price of the building that must go into art of some form.
There are several rules about what form this art must take but most important is that it must be accessible to the public.
They chose to find someone to face their garage with a mural, which sort of fits with what happens on buildings but a little closer to the ground generally.
Often buildings choose a sculpture or something similar.
This is a glass clad wall of 5,000 sq. ft. on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th level of the parking garage.
It is put against a concrete block wall with about 5" behind the glass so there is some luminosity but no transparency and cannot be accessed from the inside of the building.
The project is on 3 walls - you only see two walls in the first photo in the series.
