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
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
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 Gorgeous New Highrise Proposed For Transbay District By Noted Architect Jeanne Gang Hooray for tall buildings! A beautiful, 400-foot tower has been proposed for a corner on the north side of the Folsom and Spear intersection with a stunning, undulating design by Chicago architect Jeanne
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Best Skyscrapers (And One Fogscraper) For the most part, San Francisco likes to look up and see its skyline dotted with landmarks and infrastructure more than it likes to look up and see monuments to corporate culture. (Just
Arts & Entertainment Photos: In Transbay District, There Will Be Starchitecture Finally, finally, San Francisco is getting some architecture worthy of a grown-up skyline, and it's coming in the shape of several, major new projects including two from starchitects Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster
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
SF News Art Agnos Not Happy About Being Called Out By 'San Francisco Magazine' Former mayor Art Agnos sat down for an interview with San Francisco Magazine editor-in-chief Jon Steinberg for the upcoming April issue, and Steinberg tries to take Agnos to task for being such a
SF News The War On The Waterfront: Development Foes Propose New Height-Limit Restrictions Enemies of new development along the bayside waterfront won their first big battle with the defeat of propositions B and C in November's local election. Bolstered by that victory, they just brought a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Fly Over San Francisco In The Not-So-Distant Future As San Francisco hurtles towards a new, high-altitude future, creative agency Steelblue has created this futuristic flyover video showing the roughly 25 projects that will soon be changing the skyline and street level
Arts & Entertainment Tall Building Alert: New 31-Story Tower Proposed For Howard And Embarcadero Today at the Planning Commission they'll be hearing all about 75 Howard, a new proposed residential tower that would join this beauty and this other beauty in the ever denser Transit Center District
SF News Four Seasons Residents Threaten Ballot Initiative Against Tall Buildings You may know this already, but we here at SFist like tall buildings. And we think that people who bitch about tall buildings are aesthetically-challenged, provincially-minded sticks in the mud who should, perhaps,
SF News Cool New Residential Tower By Skidmore Owings & Merrill Selected For Transbay District Hooray for tall buildings! A new residential tower of 400 feet (about 42 stories) designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been selected to be developed on one of the Transit Center
SF News Richard Meier-Designed One Van Ness Moves to Proposal Stage The gorgeous proposed condo tower at the foot of Van Ness Avenue, dubbed One Van Ness, has moved one step forward toward becoming a reality with a more fully fleshed out design proposal.
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 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 Planning Commission Says Yes to Tall Buildings!! We've made no secret here at SFist of our support for actual tall buildings in our fair city, where some dumb ordinance from the 80s created by people scared of shadows has kept
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
