"Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it's namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight could reach the ground level around it."
"Inside, the light-filled Annex Gallery is currently home to the similarly towering works of Tara Donovan's Stratagems series. Made from thousands of recycled CDs that are wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, these swirling, reflective spires directly reference skyscraper architecture. "I am always fixated on the ways that sculptures transform space and experience, and in this context, an intention of these sculptures to engage the understanding of urban architecture can be fully realized," Donovan says."
Completed in 1972, the 48-story Transamerica Pyramid Center combines modernist blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and a pyramidical taper that allows increased sunlight at street level. The Annex Gallery houses the Stratagems series, composed of thousands of recycled CDs wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, forming swirling, reflective spires that reference skyscraper architecture. The sculptures transform mundane materials into ethereal interactions of light, texture, scale, and space while engaging the understanding of urban architecture. The works also trace technological evolution, as CDs—dominant in the 1990s—were later supplanted by MP3s and streaming, prompting reflection on changing values.
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