The Architect · Nora · San Francisco
Coit Tower
Most visitors photograph the exterior and leave. The tower's real argument is inside — twenty-seven artists painted the interior in 1934 as a single unified composition.
Arthur Brown Jr.'s 1933 fluted concrete column. The WPA fresco murals inside are the architectural event — Diego Rivera-influenced and politically charged.
— Nora, The Architect
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