Arts & Entertainment 40 Fabulous Photos Of Pflueger's San Francisco [Updated] Before thick glass, reclaimed wood, and casual minimalism became de rigueur San Francisco style, Timothy L. Pflueger, a working class kid from the Mission who didn't even attend college, drenched the city in
SF News New Apple Store In Union Square Gets Approved Unsurprisingly, the Planning Commissioned voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new flagship Apple store that's headed for the prominent northeast corner of Union Square currently occupied by the former Levi's flagship store. The
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals New Grand Stair Design For Old Building Today SFMOMA unveiled some new designs from Snohetta, the architecture firm that designed their big new white addition that's just barely under construction, to reconfigure the main staircase in the original Third Street
Arts & Entertainment Apple's New 'Spaceship Donut' Campus Goes Up For Approval The great and glorious Apple mothership in Cupertino, California is set to become an actual mothership. Or is it a space station? In any event, it is round, and vast. The building, which
Arts & Entertainment King: S.F. Needs To Suck It Up Over Bad Architecture Sometimes Architecture critic John King penned an interesting editorial today about the attitudes and anxiety we all feel over poor design, but he says that "vibrant cities roll with the punches as a matter
SF News Frank Gehry To Design Facebook's Swank New Engineering Office Anointed with a tree-topped roof garden—all the rage at Twitter—Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall) will design Facebook's new 3,400-employee engineering office in Melo Park, Calif. According to
Arts & Entertainment Torch-like Pizazz Coming To SFO Color us impressed by the swirly new control tower slated for erection at San Francisco International Airport. Isn't it the most, to say the least? Over the next two years, SFO will get
SF News New Public Utilities Commission Tower Is Greenest Building in the Country The shiny new glass tower at the corner of Golden Gate and Polk is set to be the greenest building in the country, once it becomes fully operational and inhabited by the S.
SF News New Golden Gate Bridge Visitor's Center Kinda Sucks, Says John King The big celebration this weekend also marks the unveiling of the new Golden Gate Bridge entry plaza and Bridge Pavilion, a red-painted visitor's center that's part of $6 million in improvements completed in
Arts & Entertainment There Have Always Been A**Holes In S.F. Who Don't Want Anything Pretty to Be Built Architecture critic John King brings us a delightful look back at the vocal opposition to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge a class of people who should be grouped amongst the greatest
Arts & Entertainment Regarding This Richard Meier-Designed Condo Tower That May Never Get Built John King pens a column today about a lovely, white, 34-story residential tower that could eventually rise at the corner of Van Ness and Market (where that little doughnut shop is now), designed
SF News Boo! Transbay Tower Gets Shorter In news that is likely to annoy all those of us who like tall buildings and despise San Franciscans' general aversion to them, a revamped design for the Transbay Tower was just unveiled
Arts & Entertainment John King's 'Cityscapes,' A Guide To San Francisco Architecture If you think you fully appreciate San Francisco architecture, then I invite you take a second look through the eyes of author John King, and his book Cityscapes. He dissects our fair city
Arts & Entertainment John King Critiques S.F.'s Downtown Plan, Written in 1985 On the cover of yesterday's Chron, architecture critic John King had a piece critiquing the San Francisco Downtown Plan, following on a recently released report detailing the plan's successes and failures over its
Arts & Entertainment 140 New Montgomery: Inside an Art Deco Masterpiece One of San Francisco's cultural gems is John King, the San Francisco Chronicle's Pulitzer-finalist urban design critic. He just published a book, Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings, that showcases fifty buildings representing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Capsula, from Spain, bring their mix of "straight-up scuzzy garage punk and like Death Valley 69-era Sonic Youth" sound to the Elbo Room. SF's Blammos and The Angel & Robot Show (a
SF News Foundry Square and Piers 1½, 3, and 5 Get Honored Foundry Square and Piers 1½, 3, and 5 are among 17 finalists on the short list for an award from the Urban Land Institute. The 74-year-old institute gives these excellence awards in order
misc It's Not the Gorgeous New Federal Building, That's for Sure Curbed is making us think again with their new contest: name the ugliest building in San Francisco. And in a city famous for its twee charm, there's still an impressive from which to
Arts & Entertainment John King Hates on the Federal Building In compiling his list of the top 10 in new SF architecture for the aughts, Chronicle architecture critic John King makes the glaring omission of the Morphosis-designed Federal Building at 7th and Mission.
SF News TransAmerica Pyramid Gets Green Building Certification On Friday, Mayor Newsom announced that the TransAmerica Pyramid had achieved LEED Gold certification for being one of the greenest buildings in the nation, thereby boosting San Francisco ahead of Los Angeles or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Join architects Andrew Kudless and Alex Schweder and "jellymongers" Bompas & Parr for a talk with curator Henry Urbach, about their work in SFMOMA's current exhibit, Sensate: Bodies in Motion, which is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preservationists Still Trying to Save Tonga Room Writing in the Chron, John King examines the current state of the Tonga Room preservation debate, in which preservation architect Chris VerPlanck is preparing a nomination package for saving the Fairmont hotel's pseudo-Polynesian
SF News Steve Jobs Gets Green Light to Tear Down Historic Woodside Mansion The Jackling House, built by California architect George Washington Smith in 1926 for mining guru Daniel C. Jackling, will be taken off of life support. Yesterday, the Woodside City Council decided, after years
SF News Preservationist Battle Over Historic Longshoremen's Hall In case you aren't tuned into City Planning and Architectural Preservation news, the SFBG has a new piece about the battle surrounding the possible demolition of 113 Steuart Street, which once housed the
