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Moscone West Main

Surrounded by hotels, restaurants, gardens, museums and attractions, Moscone West's gleaming glass exterior reflects the power of its dynamic setting. Rising at the corner of Fourth and Howard Streets, just steps away from Moscone North and South, Moscone West anchors and defines the western perimeter of the award-winning Yerba Buena gardens district. Answering the powerful design of SFMOMA, it is a landmark structure for San Francisco's uniquely urban fabric.

Four overlooks of approximately 1,200 square feet each are located along the Howard Street side of both second and third floors.

The Moscone Center houses a diverse collection of San FranciscoÕs public art. These pieces were commissioned or placed as part of the CityÕs Percent for Art ordinance which sets aside funding for the inclusion of art in the construction of public buildings.

Moscone West features two pieces of art that encompass a dramatic contrast in media. The interior piece is highly organic in material and function, and the exterior piece is a technologically sophisticated work of mobile electronic art.

The exterior art piece, ÒFacsimileÓ by artists Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, consists of a 15Õ by 25Õ LED video screen upon which video images from a variety of sources are featured. Artist Elizabeth Diller was born in Lodz, Poland in 1954 and Ricardo Scofidio was born in New York City, New York in 1935.

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Uploaded on December 30, 2010
Taken on April 6, 2006