Arelious Walker Stairway

 Posted by on May 5, 2014
May 052014
 

Innes Avenue
Bay View / Hunters Point

Arelious Walker Stairway

This was the proposal that was written for the Call for Artists by the SFAC:

The Arelious Walker Drive Stair replacement is a dynamic community project in partnership with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the Department of Public Works to create ceramic tile mosaic steps on the Arelious Walker Drive extending uphill from Innes Avenue to Northridge Road in the Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood. The stairway provides a vital connection from an isolated low-income community to the India Basin Shoreline, the Bay Trail, Herons Head Park, and future development at Hunters Point Shipyard. The mosaic steps project will enhance the character and livability of the surrounding area so that it becomes a gathering place consistent with the nature and spirit of the neighborhood. The project will also beautify the site by landscaping it with California native plants, succulents, and other drought tolerant species to attract birds, butterflies, and other wildlife.

Stairways of San Francisco

The new stair comprises 87 equal steps, each measuring four feet wide (4’) and seven inches high (7”). Each riser will be faced in ceramic tile mosaic ½ inch thick.

Stairways of San Francisco

The artists chosen are the same lovely ladies that are responsible for two tiled stairways in Golden Gate HeightsColette Crutcher and Aileen Barr.  Both ladies have been in this website many times before.  The cost for the installation was slated to be $90,000.

Arelious Walker Stairway

 

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Tile Stairs in Hunters Point*

Aileen Bar, Colette Crutcher*

Bayview hunters point tile stairway*

Collette Crutcher Aileen Bar Stairways

 

 

 

Bayview – Hunters Point Muni Stop

 Posted by on October 2, 2011
Oct 022011
 
Bayview/Hunters Point
3rd Street Light Rail Project
LaSalle/Palou Station
The Marquis signpost
The Canopy
This station designed by Frederick Hayes deals with Afro-Centric issues.  Hayes uses a kente cloth roof design and African language and cowrie shell symbols on the platform.
Kente cloth, known locally as nwentoma, is a type of silk and cotton fabric made of interwoven cloth strips and is native to the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Cowrie shells, throughout Africa and South and North America, symbolize the power of destiny and prosperity.  Spiritually, according to African legend, if you are attracted to cowrie shells you could be family to an ocean spirit of wealth and earth.  It also represents Goddess protection which is very powerful and connected with the strength of the ocean.
This is Frederick Hayes self description: I use portraiture to as an impetus to act and react to various stimuli within the urban environment. To form first impressions, last impressions and indeliable marks. I also believe the portraiture can take many forms and to that end I include cityscapes and the facade. For me all three share my strong desire to frame, name and reconstruct the human condition based on the initial act of looking.
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