Arts & Entertainment John King: LinkedIn Tower 'Has All The Charm Of A Well-Tailored Packing Crate' In a scorching hot takedown from Chronicle architecture writer John King, our local arbiter of tall building taste calls the new tower at 222 Second Street, which is leased in full by LinkedIn,
SF News Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple's a very large,
Arts & Entertainment Transbay Transit Center Gets First Panel Of Patterned Metal 'Skin' To celebrate their progress and also remind us that this Transbay Transit Center thing is really happening, Darin Cook, a senior associate principal with designers Pelli Clarke Pelli Architect, led the big reveal
SF News For SF's Only Frank Lloyd Wright Building, Planning Seeks Expanded Landmark Status There are only a few landmarked interior spaces in San Francisco — the New Mission Theater, Twin Peaks Tavern — but if the Planning Department has its way, a small shop at 140 Maiden Lane
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Condo Building Coming To The Corner Of Market And Church It's been a long road getting the seven-story condo building proposed for 2100 Market Street, a.k.a. the triangular site of the former Home Restaurant at Church, 14th, and Market, through the
SF News Planning Department Calls Proposed SoMa Office Development 'Playful And Inventive' Keep an eye on 725 Harrison, where a cool looking new office complex that we talked about last fall may soon be on the rise. As Socketsite writes, the complex that would occupy
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Almost, Not-Quite-Finished SFMOMA, Open Next May You know what they say: You can't rush art. Well, the new SFMOMA, which has closed the building for nearly three years in order to emerge as the largest museum in the Bay
SF News This Is What Market And Van Ness May Look Like In A Few Years On the left you have the latest design for One Van Ness, by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. On the right, a proposed residential tower at Mission and South Van Ness by Skidmore Owings
SF News HOK Architects And Salesforce Tower Developer Propose Sculptural Office Tower At 4th And Harrison San Francisco continues to up its architecture game with some new renderings of a proposed HOK-designed 240-foot-tall office tower next to the freeway, on an industrial site in SoMa across from the Whole
Arts & Entertainment Checking Back In On The Transbay Transit Center, And Its Shiny Metal 'Skin' The Transbay Transit Center, which will transform the landscape of downtown SF when it opens for business in late 2017, continues to take shape out of the ground along four blocks of Natoma
Arts & Entertainment Here's The View From The Embarcadero Once Six Proposed New Towers Go Up Near Howard Via Socketsite today, and a "plugged in tipster" over there, we get a rendering (likely from architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill) of their proposed 75 Howard condo building in the context of five
SF News Gorgeous Residential High-Rise Project Designed By Jeanne Gang Threatened By Art Agnos, Waterfront NIMBYs This fantastic high-rise development proposed for one of the last remaining Transbay District sites at Folsom and Spear is facing some major opposition from former mayor and frequent anti-waterfront-development activist Art Agnos, and
SF News So Many Victorian Homes Are Being Modernized That This Traditional Interiors Restoration Business Had To Close This past April, San Francisco Victoriana Inc., a company that restored period details in Victorian houses, experienced such a decline in business that its proprietors closed ahead of their planned retirement. “People are
Arts & Entertainment Check Out Facebook's Cool New Frank Gehry-Designed Headquarters With Its Massive Green Roof A big chunk of the Facebook team is finally getting to move into their cool new Menlo Park headquarters, dubbed MPK20, today. And as Wired reports, that means they'll be getting to stroll
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper Market residential
Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
Arts & Entertainment People Are Mocking The New Design For A Tower At One Van Ness Back in October we heard that plans had shifted for a tall residential tower being developed at the corner of Market and Van Ness which originally had architect Richard Meier attached. The developer
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Skyscraper At First And Folsom Will Look Like Some revised designs for the new Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed high-rise at First and Folsom have arrived, and it's going to be a pretty one. The project is primarily residential, with 545 new
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Unveil Pretty New Arena Renderings Though the initial, non-detailed drawings were highly toilet-like, the Warriors have today released a new set of much prettier, more detailed renderings of their new arena in Mission Bay, and they're quite handsome.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Architecture And Booze, In One Print Though a campaign's afoot to make Pisco Punch San Francisco's official drink, don't tell that to Dublin (Ireland, not East Bay)-based designers Ronan Dillon and Peter O’Gara. They're the ones who
SF News New 5M Development At 5th And Mission Hires American Architect Kohn Peterson Fox, Designs Look Rad Look, you guys! Actual architecture! Forest City, the developer behind the huge new 5M mixed-use complex that's proposed for the block surrounding the Chronicle Building that we talked about last month, has just
SF News Richard Meier Out, Snøhetta In For New Tower At Market And Van Ness As the Chron's architecture guy tells us this week, plans are shifting for the prominent development site at the corner of Market and Van Ness Streets, where we earlier heard we might be
Arts & Entertainment We Now Have Renderings Of Tall Towers at First and Mission, and South Van Ness and Mission That Norman Foster-designed, 910-foot tower at First and Mission Streets which did not have a complete rendering as of last week now does, along with a full, early critique by architecture critic John
SF News Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed For First and Mission Architecture critic John King calls plans for two new tall buildings in the Transbay District by starchitect Norman Foster "gasp-inducing," and we don't even have clear renderings yet. Nonetheless, it looks like we
SF News Architect Rem Koolhaas Tapped For Transbay Center Residential Tower In what will hopefully turn out to be a win for the less-than-impressive local skyline, San Francisco's Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure has selected noted Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to design a
