Crane Cove Park
San Francisco, California
Client: Port of San Francisco
Architect: AECOM
Fabricator: Garnett
Interpretive Graphic Standards: Macchiatto
Crane Cove Park is located within the historic Pier 70 shipbuilding district, along the southeast waterfront of San Francisco. The park was designed with many modern park features yet also incorporates historic industrial artifacts, including a ship slipway, two large cranes, ship cribbing and many smaller artifacts. Clearstory developed a signage and interpretive program that authentically references the industrial context of the site, including a hand-painted six-foot park identification sign mounted onto the historic building 49, the use of simple c-channel vertical supports and the incorporation of interpretive signage into site furnishings.