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'''The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side)'''
'''The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side) as it appeared in the late 1990s'''


The Defenestration Building, a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, welds over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation will have survived for over 12 years come April, 2009.
[http://www.metaphorm.org/portfolio/defenestration/ The Defenestration Building], a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, features over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances welded to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story, the former Hugo Hotel. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation survived from its installation in 1997 for seventeen years.


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''Photos by Chris Carlsson''
''Photos by Chris Carlsson''


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'''Not long before demolition in 2014.'''
 
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Latest revision as of 13:05, 1 June 2023

Unfinished History

Defenestration Building, 6th and Howard Streets

The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side) as it appeared in the late 1990s

The Defenestration Building, a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, features over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances welded to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story, the former Hugo Hotel. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation survived from its installation in 1997 for seventeen years.

Photos by Chris Carlsson

Not long before demolition in 2014.

Photo: Chris Carlsson


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