Argent met Sangiacomo through architect Chandra Cerrito and was hired on for the project immediately. The project isn't yet complete the next phase of construction, which will extend out to Market Street, begins next month and is projected to be completed in 2021.Īrgent, who studied at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore, has designed sculptures worldwide throughout his career. “There are 18 components that fill the plaza,” says Argent, "Each of the pieces had there own headache and their own epiphany." Hoodline spoke with Argent about his experience designing the plaza. A pathway that leads to the courtyard off 8th Street is named Yvonne's Way. Ten years in the making, the sculpture designed by Lawrence Argent was erected in privately-owned public space on 8th Street between Market and Mission.Īngelo Sangiacomo, the landlord of Trinity Place, commissioned the $5 million plaza as part of the city's 1% For the Arts program, which requires private developers who build downtown to "acquire or commission" public art that's "equal to one percent of the development’s hard construction costs."Ī marble rendering of Sangiacomo, who died in December 2015, and his late wife Yvonne are among many hidden pieces distributed throughout the plaza. The tallest statue in San Francisco, it's just 20 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (if you don't count her arm and torch), reports SFGate. The 92-foot steel Venus de Milo statue located at the Piazza Angelo in the courtyard of Trinity Plaza opened for public viewing on May 18.
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