While lollygagging up Market Street, stop and take a peek at the cool doohickeys and rad new structures along the way. The third annual Market Street Prototyping Festival is underway, happening on Market from the Embarcadero to Van Ness. And you should check it out posthaste.
Teams of people ranging from students and architects are selected by the San Francisco Planning Department and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to display their ideas for making our urban areas more engaging, more enthralling.
While most of the prototypes are temporary, some of them could become permanent fixtures along San Francisco’s busiest artery. The Market Street Prototyping Festival notes that it’s part of a larger effort to reshape and reimagine Market Street.
To wit: "Since 2011, multiple City agencies have focused their attention toward improving and enhancing Market Street’s public space through the Better Market Street project , a five-year, multi-agency effort led by San Francisco Public Works to re-establish, improve, and enhance San Francisco’s civic backbone."
And with that, here are 30 scenes of the Prototyping Festival, which ends Saturday.
Fun with balls at #MSPF at Grant and Market. pic.twitter.com/oyUPT9JBx8
— Curbed SF (@CurbedSF) October 7, 2016
.@sallykuchar and I taking in the Market Street Prototyping Festival 2016. pic.twitter.com/aj7wkjDJ1J
— Brock Keeling (@BrockKeeling) October 7, 2016