Arts & Entertainment

The Rousseau Family: Prolific Beaux Arts-Era San Francisco Architects

The Rousseaus were a high society family of Beaux Arts-era architects who built hundreds of buildings during the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. They also had their fair share of scandals.

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Local Billionaire and Onetime Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer Plans to Build Stunning Mansion In Sea Cliff

Plans have been approved for a striking modern mansion to be built on property with sweeping Golden Gate views that is currently occupied by a nearly 90-year-old home in SF's Sea Cliff neighborhood, and the owner is Tom Steyer.

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San Francisco Architecture Students Work to Reimagine and Rebuild NorCal Town Destroyed By Dixie Fire

A project that's been ongoing for two years at California College of the Arts in San Francisco seeks to imagine new ways to rebuild the town of Greenville, which was virtually leveled by the 2021 Dixie Fire.

Real Estate

Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million

The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.

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Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama

The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.

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Five-Story, Saitowitz-Designed Condo Complex Slated for Belcher Street In Duboce Triangle

Plans have been submitted for a five-story, 31-unit condo development on the site of a former artists' studio warehouse and gallery in Duboce Triangle, designed by Stanley Saitowitz and his firm Natoma Architects.

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SF's Much Loved/Hated Federal Building Getting Fenced-In Plaza Makeover

The Federal Building at 7th and Mission, which is now 14 years old, is undergoing a major redo of its beleaguered, often litter- and needle-filled plaza.

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The Historic Feusier Octagon House Is For Sale. Here Are All 3 Of SF's Eight-Sided Homes That Sold Prior

All around the world architects use the octagon to beautify their buildings. The Dome of the Rock has a characteristic octagonal plan. The Tower of the Winds in Athens is another example of

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5-Bedroom Home Overlooking Marina Green Lists For Eye-Popping $25 Million

A Marina District home with views of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge has just set a neighborhood record as the most expensive single-family home ever to hit the market.

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Owner of Illegally Demolished Neutra House Proposes New Design For Rebuild

In 2017, property owner Ross Johnston caused quite the ruckus after (illegally) demolishing a historic Richard Neutra home, circa 1935. Then, about a year later, San Francisco officials ordered him to rebuild an exact replica—but, now, there’s a fresh plan in the works.

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Planning Commission Approves One Of Two Enormous New Office and Condo Complexes In SoMa

A pair of new developments will bring a combined 800,000 square feet of new commercial and office space to SoMa, as well as a pair of sloping condo towers containing 960 units. One has already been approved, while the other awaits approval next week.

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Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign Gets Weird New Pink Canopy Structure

The contentious redesign effort for Harvey Milk Plaza and the Castro Muni station, which now goes back a full two years, has yet another update that will get publicly debated and openly derided.

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Massive 5M Office and Condo Project Set To Begin Construction In SoMa

The long-delayed 5M project, a dramatic renovation of several South of Market blocks, will add a 400-condo skyscraper, gobs of new office space, and a grass rooftop park to the Chronicle building.

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San Francisco Firm Designs 3-D Printed Village For Farm Workers In Latin America

An SF-based design firm has partnered with a nonprofit that develops housing in the developing world to build a 50-unit housing village using 3-D printing construction technology in 50 days time.

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Architect Richard Neutra's First SF Project Illegally Razed By New Owner

A house on Twin Peaks originally designed by renowned California architect Richard Neutra and constructed in 1936 has been completely demolished, and Socketsite suggests that the developer behind this transgression will likely just

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New Renderings Reveal 579-Unit Development Planned At 12th And Market

Property along Market Street at 12th that belongs to the UA Local 38 Plumbers Union a notable union of plumbing companies and individuals - across the street from Zuni, is slated for redevelopment

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Polarizing SF Federal Building Marks 10 Years Since Completion

Architecture nerds mostly love the Morphosis-designed San Francisco Federal Building at 7th and Mission, but it's also a contemporary building that plenty of San Franciscans love to hate. In honor of its 10th

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Check Out The Crazy View From The $42 Million Penthouse At 181 Fremont

Just hitting the market is the insane, full-floor penthouse unit sitting atop what will be the tallest residential tower on the West Coast. I'm talking about 181 Fremont, arguably the coolest looking new

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Planning Commissioner Compares Salesforce Tower Lighting Scheme To 'A Carnival'

We just heard this week that the architect team behind Salesforce Tower had nixed a planned redwood grove that was to be a feature of what will be called Mission Square — the public

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Peer Review Engineer From Millennium Tower Project Says He Did Not Consider Transbay Center Impacts

At a Board of Supervisors committee hearing Friday, one of the engineers tasked with reviewing the foundation of the now sinking Millennium Tower when it was in the design and construction process testified

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Transbay Transit Center's Rooftop Park And Apple's New Campus Were In Tree-Buying Battle

Getting the right 469 trees to plant in the Transbay Transit Center's crowning rooftop park has been a difficult task, and in part, Apple is to blame. The long-awaited San Francisco development project,

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Cool Historic Building At 18th And Mission, Once Slated For Brewpub, To Become Dialysis Center

A prominent, architecturally significant property in the heart of the Mission that has sat vacant and/or under construction for the last decade is changing hands for the third time in seven years

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Leading Architect Says SF Planning 'Doesn't Understand Architecture'

Stanley Saitowitz, an architect whose significant star power extends beyond his Bay Area home, is not mincing words when it comes to our city's culture of what he might — but didn't quite — call

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Behold The San Francisco Skyline Of The Very Near Future

A new set of renderings by SF-based firm Steelblue visualize the result of a downtown building boom the likes of which we shouldn't expect to see again soon. Consider this a sneak peek

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Google's New Circus Tent Campus Approved, Construction To Begin In April

Google/Alphabet has been at work on a highly ambitious, enormous new addition to its Googleplex campus in Mountain View, this one dubbed Charleston East. We first heard about it two full years