SF News 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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment Behold The First Renderings Of The Renzo Piano-Designed Hotel And Condo At 555 Howard The final design pieces of the Transbay District are clicking into place, and one of the last parcels to get developed, 555 Howard an oddly shaped parcel hemmed in by Tehama Street and
Arts & Entertainment Revised Designs Submitted For Final Skyscraper Going Into Transbay District Pelli Clark Pelli, the same architectural firm responsible for the dildo-shaped tower rising downtown that's soon to be named Salesforce, has just submitted some revised designs to Planning for a second tower they're
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Gorgeous, Unbuilt Tech Firm That Frank Lloyd Wright Designed For Silicon Valley The Bay Area work of the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright, both the ten or so projects that were built and twenty or so more that only made it to the design or
SF News Chinese Firm Breaks Ground On What Will Be SF's Second Tallest Building, Oceanwide Center Thursday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for Oceanwide Center, a complex of two towers and some smaller buildings, the tallest being 910 feet tall, at First and Mission Streets. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners
SF News Thanks, LA: Salesforce Tower Won't Be The Tallest Building In The West Those obsessed with tall buildings and those who've been paying attention likely already knew this news. But while Salesforce Tower (née Transbay Tower), which once completed will stand at 1,070 feet, was
Arts & Entertainment Architect's Pretty Sketches Of Bay Area Landmarks Build A Following It may not be Follow Friday just yet, but Dan Hogman's Instagram account and Facebook page are worth a Like any day of the week for lovers of Bay Area architecture, cool drawings,
SF News Millennium Tower, Next To Transbay Center, Is Sinking And Tilting San Francisco's Millennium Tower, completed in 2009 and famed for being the home to some high-profile locals like Joe Montana and Hunter Pence, has apparently sunk well over a foot sixteen inches into
SF News Salesforce Tower Update: Rising Fast And Installation Begins On Exterior Curtain Wall Installation of the curtain wall has begun #progress #construction #supertall #ilovesf #highrise #cre @salesforce A video posted by Salesforce Tower (@salesforcetower) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:03am PDT Another milestone arrives this
SF News Exquisite Art Deco Building On Valencia Now On The Market Built for the Independent Order of Foresters, a fraternal society a la the Odd Fellows or Free Masons, 170 Valencia Street was designed by architect Harold Stoner and completed in 1930. Just look
SF News Here's The 60-Story Tower Proposed For The Final 'Super-Tall' Transbay Parcel Sitting beside the Transbay Transit Center, 546 Howard Street's Parcel F is the last "super-tall" site zoned for development of greater than 550 feet. Anything that tall has the potential to radically alter
SF News Latest Of Many Redesigns Revealed For Planned Development At Church And Market Home restaurant once occupied a triangular parcel at the intersection of Market and Church at 2100 Market, but after that closed in 2011, getting someone or something on the premises — other than squatters
SF News Awesome, Twisty Tower Designed By Jeanne Gang For 160 Folsom Gets Another Approval It looks like full steam ahead for the rad, unique, 39-story residential tower by acclaimed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang that's been proposed for 160 Folsom Street, one of the final pieces of land
Arts & Entertainment New Public Space At LinkedIn Building Is Now Open To All But Known To Few A photo posted by Jessica Nguyen (@jtnguyen06) on Apr 29, 2016 at 4:41pm PDT If you don't know, now you know: POPOS are plazas, atriums, and small parks that are part of
SF News Newsweek: Apple's New SF Flagship Store Is A 'Fancy Crypt' The gleaming new Union Square Apple store, unveiled and opened this month, is its "first global flagship," which is to say that stores that come after it will follow in its mold. Designed
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend's Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Early Reactions To New SFMOMA Building Very Mixed, Include IKEA Comparison The bold, new Snøhetta-designed addition to the SFMOMA that we took you inside yesterday is already garnering some mixed emotions from architecture critics, and while we await the official word from the Chronicle's
SF News The Ultra-Green $200M SFPUC Headquarters Has Had A Few Technical Difficulties Being Green The glass-clad, 13-story headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that overlooks Civic Center from Golden Gate Avenue, completed in 2012 and touted as the greenest urban office building in North America,
Arts & Entertainment Gorgeous, Historic Penthouse Inside Rincon Clock Tower Going For $8.5M If you want to live like a Bond villain/unrealistically wealthy man-child Tom Hanks in Big, get a load of this penthouse loft that just came on the market at 461 Second Street,
Arts & Entertainment Transbay District Likely To Get A Renzo Piano-Designed Highrise In some more excellent news for architecture and tall buildings in SF, we learned this week that starchitect Renzo Piano, the man behind one of the best-loved new buildings of the last decade
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA's Rad New Living Wall One of the most stunning aspects of the new SFMOMA is a living wall comprising some 19,440 plants, all California native species, that lines a second-story courtyard along the eastern side of
