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 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
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 John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
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 Chronicle Critic John King Hates The Bay Lights, Says They Should Go Away Already Maybe I should commend architecture critic John King for being brave and confident enough in his own aesthetic opinion to come out denouncing the Bay Lights as underwhelming and unworthy of future funding.
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 Big Tall Building Planned at Third and Mission Scares John King, Others A strikingly tall tower proposed for 706 Mission Street (at Third), which is currently undergoing Planning review, doesn't seem to sit well with architecture critic John King. He mostly seems bothered by the
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 Densest Cities In The U.S. Are In California, Including L.A., S.F., And, Uh, Delano So this is odd: According to a new study by the U.S. Census Bureau, the four densest "urbanized areas" of the country are now all in California, and Los Angeles and the
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
SF News Central Subway Entrance At Union Square Revealed; It's Not That Exciting Call it a subway to nowhere, or call it the greatest thing ever to happen to riders of the Dirty 30, the Central Subway is going to be a fact of life for
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
SF News John King Calls Out Preservationists Over Ugly North Beach Branch Library Influential architecture critic John King calls out local preservationists in Sunday's Chronicle for not having the balls to say what he already has said in print regarding the North Beach branch library, namely
misc The Only (PARK)ing Day 2010 Photo You'll Ever Need Starting out as a way to reclaim private space for the public, this year's (PARK)ing Day in San Francisco seemed more commercial, if you will, than years prior. On the event's site,
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 Downtown Lawyer Sues SF Over That One Guy Who Beats Those Plastic Buckets and Metal Pots at the Ferry Building 60-year-old attorney William McGrane is fit to be tied. Why? Because of noted Ferry Building street percussionist John King's daily performances. It seems that his groovy beats, which stem from the many plastic
misc Day Around the Bay "Static and squat," declares John King on the new residential tower, Soma Grand. And it only gets worse, beautifully so. [SFGate] Have a sumptuous yet refreshing woodchuck, raccoon, or squirrel recipe? Send it
misc And The Nominees Are: Your Transbay Terminal Designs Pelli Clarke Pelli's Transbay Terminal vision "Although there's no guarantee that any of the towers will be built," John King and Jonathan Curiel at the Chronicle report that three crazy-tall and skyline-altering designs
misc Good Touch The attached image was created in timely response to a two-week-old article on SFGate, in which John King confesses of the proposed Muni shelters, "I've got my favorites, but only two or three
SF News Day Around The Bay --Does architecture critic John King ever like ? --Sad! The San Franciscan speller in the National Bee got the dreaded misspelling bell of death this afternoon in the quarter finals, on the word "ursigram.
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
