Search Results : Martha Ketterer

SurfHenge

 Posted by on March 23, 2018
Mar 232018
 

Taraval and 48th Street
Sunset District

Surfhenge

These sculptures designed by DPW landscape architect Martha Ketterer  are part of the Taraval Streetscape Improvement Project.  The design combines the lightness and fragility of surfboards or sails with monumental weight and verticality.  The work was then adorned with tile work by Colette Crutcher suggestng the ceaseless dance of the ocean and its creatures.

SurfHenge by Martha Ketterer and Colette CrutcherSurfhenge is a nickname for Taraval Street.

The $1,600,000. Taraval Streetscape project is part of the revitalization of a neglected neighborhood at San Francisco’s western edge.

Martha Ketterer is a Landscape Architect for the Department of Public Works. She is a San Francisco native and has a degree in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from UC Berkeley. She also designed these wonderful tree grates in The Mission District.

SurfHenge Colette Crutcher and Martha

Colette Crutcher has been in this site many times before.  She is a multi discipline artist.  She began her career with painting and printmaking but now covers a variety of media.

Taraval Streetscape Improvement Project

*SurfHenge/Taraval Street Mosaics

Muertos in the Mission

 Posted by on August 31, 2012
Aug 312012
 

Valencia Street

Between 15th and 19th Streets

Mission District

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 These tree grates are part of Phase One of the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project.  They were designed by DPW architects John Dennis and Martha Ketterer and manufactured by Iron Age Grates company.

Phase one of the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project included removal of the striped center median, sidewalk widening, bulb-outs, more accommodating curbside loading zones for trucks, improved traffic, parking and bicycle lane alignments, the removal of the striped center median, pedestrian scale lighting, art elements, bike racks, and new street trees.

The project included the replacement and addition of 76,000 square feet of sidewalk and the installation of pedestrian bulbouts to provide traffic calming, facilitate street crossing and add space for gathering. Additional improvements included the planting of 106 Brisbane Box and London Plane trees along the sidewalks, new trash receptacles, 69 bike racks, 32 wheel chair accessible curb ramps, 26 roadway-scale lights and 46 pedestrian-scale lights. Four Victorian-themed street posts, uniquely designed for Valencia Street through the San Francisco Arts Commission, were also installed. This public art feature entitled ‘Valencia Street Post’ was installed by artist Michael Arcega.

The cost of the program was $6.1 million and was funded through a combination of a multi-year federal transportation bill called the Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act (“SAFETEA“) and two Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) federal grants with local matching funds.

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