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picturesque with the illumination shedding its soft light on the Pagoda. It looks as if the Pagoda is carved in relief against the nocturnal sky and floating on water in a fairy land." Stones and rocks arranged in the pool were also shipped from Japan. A granite bridge leading to the east from the center of the Pagoda provided pedestrian access over the pool. Another reflecting pool, at the northern edge of the Peace Plaza, was adjacent to a covered walkway connecting the Miyako (West) and Kintetsu (East) Malls.
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However, due to poor drainage, the reflecting pools around the Pagoda and north edge of the Plaza were kept dry as early as 1971, since water kept leaking into the Japan Center Garage underneath the Plaza. The pools were permanently drained in 1990 and the group Friends of Japantown Peace Plaza held
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responded by passing a resolution to designate Peace Plaza as a permanent open space, and then the City Recreation and Park Commission took complete ownership of the Plaza in 1989 through eminent domain. Continuing issues with leaks draining the reflecting pools into the garage underneath led to the
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Peace Plaza measures 160 by 197 feet (49 by 60 m), and the Peace Pagoda is in the southwestern corner of the Plaza. As originally designed and constructed, the Peace Pagoda stood in a keyhole-shaped reflecting pool. Per Taniguchi, "... as night draws on, the whole structure will look extremely
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After the redesign, there are eight steps leading to the center of the Pagoda: three steps in a large outer concrete circle; three steps in a smaller pentagonal concrete platform; and two steps within the base formed by the twelve vertical pillars. A waterfall wall is west of the Pagoda, lettered
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In the mid-1980s, National-Braemar's parent company, Manoa Finance, went bankrupt and National-Braemar was forced to sell its assets, including the Japan Center development and a portion of the Peace Plaza. The new owner, Sinclair Louie, had discussed building a commercial space on the Plaza,
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pillars to support five copper-clad conical roofs which decrease in diameter from 46 feet (14 m) (for the lowest roof, closest to the ground) to 34 feet (10 m) (for the uppermost roof). Each pillar is 65 feet (20 m) tall and weighs 12 short tons (11 t). As typical of a
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a contest to redesign the Plaza, selecting Kimio Kimura as the landscape architect to design a garden using existing planters and structures. In 1995, the Board of Supervisors allocated $ 600,000 for renovations, and Friends of Japantown Peace Plaza retained the architectural firm
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is encased in glass near the north end of the wall. A 9 ft (2.7 m) tall monument was added in 2005 to commemorate the contributions of Japanese Americans to the north edge of the Plaza; it is one of three monuments placed in California Japantowns by SB307.
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The Peace Pagoda lifts up its hundred-feet-high spire to the skies of California. It presents a magnificent view to all esthetically minded people who raise their eyes up to the horizon on the perimeters of San Francisco.
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printed an article showing a rendering of the completed Peace Pagoda and Plaza; Justin Herman said he had approved the modern concrete structure over a wooden replica of the
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in Osaka. The Martinelli Construction Company of San Francisco oversaw construction of the Pagoda, and it was dedicated in a separate ceremony on September 15, 1968.
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The San Francisco Peace Pagoda and Peace Plaza are in the center of the Japan Center Mall, which was completed in 1968 as one of the first projects undertaken by
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The San Francisco Peace Pagoda was designed as a five-tiered concrete stupa. Unlike most peace pagodas, this one was not constructed by the Buddhist order
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from Japan. Finishes and decorative materials were sourced from Japan, and the reinforced concrete structure would be cast at the site in San Francisco.
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Construction of the Pagoda was underway when Japan Center was dedicated on March 28, 1968. The dedication was attended by the Ambassador from Japan,
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The designer of the San Francisco Peace Pagoda, Yoshirō Taniguchi, was a noted Japanese modernist architect who also designed the
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and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city
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A new wall was installed along Geary, at the south edge of the Plaza, by May 2000, and the
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was retained as a structural consultant. The total cost of the Pagoda was $ 185,000.
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Presented in friendship to the people of the United States by the people of Japan
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to rehabilitate the Plaza and address continued leakage into the Garage.
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Bess, Donovan (3 April 1963). "A Japanese Gift to City—'Peace Plaza'".
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The design for the Peace Pagoda was completed by April 1963, when the
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Knaefler, Tomi (10 March 1968). "Pagoda of the Dream Come True".
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The Peace Pagoda is 100 feet (30 m) tall with five distinct
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Historic Context Statement: Japantown, San Francisco, California
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although no plans were ever presented to SFRA for approval. The
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permanent drainage and removal of landscaping in 1990.
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San Francisco Peace Pagoda (San Francisco Bay Area)
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Affiliation
Buddhism
Nihonmachi
Japantown
United States
San Francisco Peace Pagoda is located in San Francisco
San Francisco Peace Pagoda is located in San Francisco Bay Area
Geographic coordinates
37°47′06″N 122°25′47″W / 37.785054°N 122.429827°W / 37.785054; -122.429827 (Peace Pagoda in San Francisco)
stupa
Geary Streets
Nihonmachi
Japantown
Japan Center Mall
Osaka
Yoshiro Taniguchi
M. Justin Herman
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Western Addition
sister city
Osaka
Masayuki Tokioka
San Francisco Chronicle
George Christopher
June 1960 riots
Dwight Eisenhower
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Takesō Shimoda
Yasushi Oshima

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