Downtown Brentwood Gateway
The City of Brentwood desired a signature structure for the entrance to downtown as part of their streetscape improvement project. SDG Architects designed a gateway that would span the entrance and pay homage to iconic Diablo Mountain, which is clearly visible from several vantage points in the city. Valley Iron Works consulted with SDG to come up with a plan to cut the silhouette of Mt. Diablo and adjacent foothills from several sheets of 1/4 in plate steel. The sheets were fabricated with spacers between them to give depth to the sculpture mounted to a wide flange beam and coated with a multi-pass paint system to provide the requested shading. Valley Iron mounted the stainless lettering and erected the structure on two steel columns providing the City with the unique entrance they requested