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...area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along our own riverfront area...
...object of all this controversy was the new fountain on San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza. A monumental structure of squared concrete tubes, cantilevering in all directions above a five-sided pool, it was designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, 38, who won the commission in a competition judged by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. To cap it all, on the eve of dedication day last week some vandal stenciled QUEBEC LIBRE in red paint on the fountain...
Vaillancourt has done numerous other sculptural commissions in Canada, including two for Expo 67. Politics aside, his San Francisco fountain is a most impressive piece of urban statuary, giving a much needed accent to the wide expanse of Embarcadero Plaza. But the furious Vaillancourt refuses to admit that there can be any separation of art from politics. "I am a very emotional man," he explained. "It is all the same thing." Then, prodding his middle finger upward in the direction of the speakers' platform, he added: "And if they do not like it, f- them...
...Francisco-serving airlines, create job opportunities in the post office, fire department, trade unions and in the Bay Area Rapid Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto's first -where movies may be filmed and residents can pick up paychecks as extras. Along the way, he helped...
Portman, 42, is an enterprising developer as well as an architect, who has played leading roles wearing both hats in creating San Francisco's projected Embarcadero Center (TIME, Feb. 24) and Atlanta's own downtown Peachtree Center, of which the hotel is a part. With an eye to both urban development and showmanship, he has gone all out toward making Regency Hyatt House a civic showpiece...