Harvey Milk Plaza
client: San Francisco Prize, City of San Francisco
scope: Urban Design
location: San Francisco, CA
stage: Idea Competition
bioregion: Mediterranean: Central California Coast

Castro Street is the commercial and social heart of the most famous gay neighborhood in the world. The goal of the Harvey Milk Plaza competition was to develop ideas to build a true plaza to commemorate Harvey Milk and to bring international attention to the significance of Harvey Milk and San Francisco's civil rights history. This included expansion and redesign of the existing plaza areas to create a space with an urban scale that is coherent as a unified design, a usable gathering space and a memorial to Harvey Milk.