Showplace Triangle: A Pavement to Parks Project

San Francisco’s streets and public rights-of-way make up fully 25% of the city’s land area, more space even than is found in all of the city’s parks. Many of our streets are excessively wide and contain large zones of wasted space, especially at intersections. San Francisco’s new “Pavement to Parks” projects seek to temporarily reclaim these unused swathes and quickly and inexpensively turn them into new public plazas and parks.

Rebar designed Showplace Triangle to be a neighborhood gathering space. Almost entirely build of reused or repurposed materials - Sunset Scavenger debris boxes as tree planters, PUC sewer pipe as bollards, DPW granite curb as planting beds, and....get this...Italian black granite once used on Market street for public seating - the project demonstrates that ingenuous reuse can also be high style!

Many thanks to our collaborators - the SF Planning Department, SF PUC, Recology, Flora Grubb Nursery, California College of Arts, Wolfe's Lunch and Axis Cafe, Artist Ramad...and most of all...to the skilled and talented workers at the San Francisco Department of Public works that made the project possible.

We love this city as much as you do, and we love making new public space in the street!