San Francisco - Justin Herman Plaza

This small park in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel was created in the course of developing the Embarcadero Center. It is popular with office workers from the nearby skyscrapers, who gather here during the midday break to eat their lunches and be entertained by assorted musicians and street actors.

A notable feature of the park is the Vaillancourt Fountain, constructed by the Canadian sculptor Armand Vaillancourt out of colossal concrete blocks on which it is possible to clamber.