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The San Diego County Administration Center is a historic Beaux-Arts/Spanish Revival–style building in San Diego, California. It houses the offices of the government of San Diego County. Due to its notable architecture and location fronting San Diego Bay, it is nicknamed the Jewel on the Bay. [1]
Samuel I. Fox Building, Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, 1929; San Diego Athletic Club, San Diego, 1928; San Diego Central Post Office, San Diego, 1937; San Diego County Administration Center, San Diego, 1938; San Diego Firehouse Museum, San Diego, 1920s; Silverado Ballroom, San Diego, 1931; Silver Gate Three Stars Masonic Lodge No 296, San Diego, 1931
In San Diego, he attended City College and received an associate degree in technical illustration. [7] Afterwards, he attended San Diego State and graduated with a BA in 1974. [7] Ochoa became involved with Chicano activism while he was in college. In April 1970, he saw fliers at the City College Student Center for a park take-over for what ...
Hoover Dam, Arizona/Nevada San Diego County Administration Center. Government and public buildings of the 30s and 40s often combined elements of neoclassical, Beauxs-Arts, and Art Deco. This style is called PWA Moderne, [21] Federal Moderne, [22] Depression Moderne, [21] Classical Moderne, [21] Stripped Classicism, or Greco Deco.
Several pieces of 1930s Works Progress Administration art, with San Diego themes, were installed after the 1994 renovation. These include a ceramic sculpture by T.J. Dixon and James Nelson, titled The Immigrants, and two paintings on the third-floor, San Diego Harbor, by an unknown artist and San Diego Mural, by Belle Baranceanu. [2]
Torres was one of the founders of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, also in San Diego.He helped form Los Toltecas en Aztlán, a Chicano artists group that was instrumental in converting a former water tank [3] in Balboa Park into a museum and cultural center with the specific mission of promoting, preserving and creating Chicano, native Mexicano, Latin American and Indian art and culture.
Guardian of Water is a 1939 fountain and sculpture by Donal Hord, installed outside the San Diego County Administration Center, in the U.S. state of California.The statue was dedicated on June 10, 1939.
The iconic downtown San Diego County Administration Center is featured surrounded by elements of San Diego’s renowned natural environment, with sea, sand, mountains, and green spaces. The building represents the foundation for the myriad of programs provided to those who seek County services while the surrounding elements and colors are a nod ...