SFist: SFist Photo: The New InterContinental - Viva Las Vegas!

iris

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:36:30 -0800

It looks like something designed by Aquafresh.

junk

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:31:14 -0800

hello- did anyone consider how this bldg would effect the integrity of the view of City Hall from the Fulton Axis? This appears to be a major error in skyline sculpting. Is it too late to take it back?

mariconsoy

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:38:16 -0800

We need more tall penis buildings that look like those in "Blade Runner"

Atlas Scruggs

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:14:09 -0800

Law schools come and law schools go, but the William Taylor Hotel and Methodist Church has a permanent address in our hearts.

wsanders

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:19:32 -0800

Like MalcoveMagnesia suggests, let's all go to the opening dressed as characters from "Ocean's Thirteen". I'll go as George Clooney, because I look just like him, except I'm 20 years older, 30 pounds heavier, have 60% as much hair, and I don't have any suits as nice as his.

SFistJim

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:13:56 -0800

And people, please, post your shots to the Flickr. Tag them "SFist". And please don't forget about UN Plaza. It's terrible also. http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=910

SFistJim

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:07:18 -0800

888 Howard looked a lot better in the fog today. The "photo" (really it's a photo illustration) in question http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/hotel/sfohb?_requestid=201628 isn't really BADLY Shopped. Somebody used a perspective control lens and/or a software command that affects perspective. Thusly: http://www.f-stop.com/p-c.htm However, it appears that the building is wider at the top than at the bottom. Some of this has to do with the lighting, some of it has to do with going a little too far with perspective correction.

Michael Jackson

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:10:40 -0800

I hope that it gets bombed in an air raid.

Bushy Hyde

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:10:32 -0800

If you look at the renderings the developer totally misrepresented what this thing was to look like http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/hotel/sfohb?_requestid=201628 Wow you are right, it looked sleek in those renderings, now it looks kinda square and stocky. And the blue parts look plasticly, rather than glassy. Stop me if I get too technical.

Michael Jackson

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:07:15 -0800

It looks like some oversized lego building that a 5-year-old made.

sangfroid826

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:06:48 -0800

I absolutely agree that this doesn't even come close to the sleek, futuristic design proposed in the mock-ups. And that's unfortunate. But I'm looking at the Intercontinental through my window, and the color is nowhere near as garish as it looks in this photograph. With this shot, City Hall's gold leaf oddly muted in the foreground. It might just be a function of cloud placement, so I wouldn't evaluate the taste-level of the building on the strength of this pic alone. Using Justin Herman Plaza as the worst architectural product San Francisco has ever produced, I'd say this falls right in the middle of the pack. Eh. I can live with it.

rroseselavy

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:01:50 -0800

Yep, it looks BADLY photoshopped at that. Amazing.

zig

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:53 -0800

I am not an anti-growth build everything in faux-Victoria style Sfian but I hate this building If you look at the renderings the developer totally misrepresented what this thing was to look like http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/hotel/sfohb?_requestid=201628 I like juxtaposition of new and old building. I dislike this one based on it looking tacky

Dan Berkes

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:39 -0800

MalcoveMagnesia: Only if you have the matching cocaine habit. Wow. That building is... wow. Nothing wrong with variety, and if someone lives there it should be easy to direct people to your place.

mdw0526

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:46:44 -0800

So what if it looks like it doesn't belong?!? Does everything have to look the god-damn same? Just because City Hall is a Beaux Arts structure, and the Hastings building is ancient, doesn't mean everything has to match. Granted, the building isn't that great, but I'm excited when anything gets built in this city. If only the Sue Hestors and Bruce Brugmanns would just shut up, then we might actually get some good design.

MalcoveMagnesia

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:36:12 -0800

if I wear a pink shirt, white sport coat and loafers, will they invite me to the grand opening?

pfeiffer

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:06:26 -0800

Being a huge fan of modern architecture, I want to like this, but this building is a nightmare. That blue glass is nasty. The massing at the top is confused. I'll take the new Federal Building any day over this.

wsanders

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:20 -0800

"Americans suffer beneath their clown clothes and grotesque clown smiles. Malnourished by a diet of junk food, they live and work in clown buildings, drive clown-mobiles, and occupy recreational time with canned, trivial entertainment. " http://www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume4/jim_kunstler_new_urbanist.htm From an an essay by someone named Karen O'Keefe on Jim Kunstler, what a fun guy: http://www.kunstler.com/

SFistJim

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:03:34 -0800

Well sure it looks Photoshopped, but it's really there. Took that photo last week.

Agent510

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:56:39 -0800

I like the new Intercontinental! Very cool building. It may not perfectly fit in but I don't see why it doesn't belong. No reason to keep SF in the dark ages (like Philadelphia before the "top of William Penn's hat" height restriction was lifted in the 1990s).

sethland

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:54:30 -0800

looks photoshopped