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'''The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side)'''
'''The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side) as it appeared in the late 1990s'''


The Defenestration Building, a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, welds over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation will have survived for over 12 years come April, 2009.
[http://www.metaphorm.org/portfolio/defenestration/ The Defenestration Building], a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, features over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances welded to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story, the former Hugo Hotel. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation survived from its installation in 1997 to the present.


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''Photos by Chris Carlsson''
''Photos by Chris Carlsson''


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Latest revision as of 23:52, 24 March 2015

Unfinished History

Defenestration-all 0238.jpg

Defenestration Building, 6th and Howard Streets

Art1$defenestration.jpg

The Defenestration Building (Howard Street side) as it appeared in the late 1990s

The Defenestration Building, a sculptural installation by Brian Goggin at Howard & 6th Streets in SF, features over 30 pieces of furniture and home-appliances welded to the exterior of an abandoned SOMA 3-story, the former Hugo Hotel. Despite endorsement by Willie Brown and funding by federal grants, the installation survived from its installation in 1997 to the present.

Defen falling-tables 0231.jpg

Defen-northside-stuff-in-windows 0227.jpg

Defen-eastside-stuff-in-windows 0230.jpg

Defenestration-closeup-corner 0239.jpg

Photos by Chris Carlsson

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