SAN FRANCISCO-Admirers of Ruth Asawa bronze fountain near Union Square might be relieved today, as the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that it will stay where it is.
Apple Inc. has presented city officials with a revised design for a new flagship store it hopes to build across from Union Square at Post and Stockton streets. Where the initial proposal in May did not take the fountain into consideration, it now will be placed near steps leading to a plaza between the back of the Apple Store and the side of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, the newspaper says.
The proposed design of the building itself has changed too. Instead of Stockton Street being walled off by steel panels 80 feet long and more than 20 feet high, the design includes an 8-foot-wide glass "window" that will be notched deep into the wall.
City planning department director John Rahaim told the Chronicle that the revisions are a positive step.
The 7-foot-tall fountain is the centerpiece of a long, sloped plaza along Stockton Street between the hotel tower and the existing triangular retail building that faces Union Square. It was build in 1973.
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