The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/03/vaillancott-fountain-will-indeed-be-removed-as-sf-arts-commission-approves-taking-the-fountain-down/A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over for now, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt. It created some waves July 2024 when SF city officials presented a proposed redesign for the Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park and that design did not include the Vaillancourt Fountain that’s been there since 1971. Fans of the striking and some would say appallingly ugly fountain mounted a campaign to preserve it, even bringing in the fountain’s designer, 95-year-old French-Can

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