San Francisco’s Brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain Will Be Dismantled

On Sunday, November 2, the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation, which has been fighting to preserve the monument, disputed the alledged immediate safety risk.

“For years, the [Arts] Commission deliberately decided not to properly maintain the artwork and now they’ve voted to pardon and absolve themselves, and by extension the Recreation and Parks Department, for their poor stewardship decisions,” Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles Birnbaum said in a statement.