Levi’s Plaza sells for first time

According to the Cultural Landscape Foundation, Halprin balanced the layout between “hard” and “soft” elements that blended work and park-like spaces (complete with distinctively Halprin-like water elements) into a whole. 

“Although Levi’s Plaza is situated along the heavily trafficked Embarcadero, it is quiet and calm, sheltered by the office buildings and a hedge along its eastern boundary,” foundation writers note, adding that Halprin himself worked nearby and often visited.