The Brutalist Embarcadero Fountain Some Love, But Many Hate 37.6%
KQED - By Katie DeBenedetti, Olivia Allen-Price - 5/14/2026, 10:00 AM
Appeal to Authority 12.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 9.6% - Negativity Bias 9.6%
View the full episode transcript. Since it was first unveiled in 1971, the 710-ton brutalist-style Vaillancourt Fountain has been a divisive piece of public art within San Francisco. The tangle of concrete square tubes once fit in seamlessly with the Embarcadero Freeway, a double-decker road which once ran right next to it. But nowadays... more