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San Francisco architecture news – San Jose’s 10-minute Neighborhood: developers create affordable housing for homeless ; the city’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, overtook the 853 feet-high Transamerica Pyramid, the title holder since 1972!
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MVRDV’s residential complex The Canyon on San Francisco’s waterfront is complete. The 23-storey mixed-use building, MVRDV’s first completed project on the west coast of the United States, is part of a masterplan that creates the wholly new neighbourhood “Mission Rock” overlooking San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco architecture walking tours – see classic buildings by architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Herzog & de Meuron, Snøhetta, Mario Botta, Foster + Partners and Daniel Libeskind – source Bay Area architecture guides by e-architect for Californian building walks – SF walking tour by architects
Google Complex in Mountain View, California building design by BIG + Heatherwick Studio – “This is an opportunity to not only create a new home for the world’s most innovative company, but also to make a vibrant piece of town at the same time as protecting and enhancing the local natural habitat.”
Sharon Stone rose to international prominence with her role in Basic Instinct in the 1990s. Sharon’s Sea Cliff Mansion in San Francisco is now on the market for $39 million!
Beloved funnyman Robin Williams got his start with a scholarship to the Julliard School, where he pursued an unconventional style and amazed his teachers with an uncanny talent for accents. Robin Williams Sea Cliff Mansion in San Francisco lists $25 Million
The circulation for the jones | haydu designed Dolores Heights Residence, San Francisco, is a straight axis, interacting with the building’s forms as they ascend to the main entrance. Continuing at the interior, one’s experience along this axis is always anchored on the downhill end by Sutro Tower
Known as the Temazcal Room, TEF Design newly developed this amenity space, located off the main lobby of the Bay Area Metro Center in downtown San Francisco.
The enviable location of Gates Skylight House in San Francisco, California, the hilltop home became the driving force in how Blue Truck Studio undertook renovations. The studio expanded the home upwards with a partial third-story addition to better take in the amazing views
LMN Architects and TEF Design have been commissioned to design the Diego Rivera Theater at the City College of San Francisco in California, San Francisco, USA. The project will showcase the iconic Pan American Unity mural created by Diego Rivera and is set to become a new hub for community and culture
A San Francisco family asked Faulkner Architectsto help them expand CAMPout House an existing property near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees
Casa Adelante San Francisco, a new affordable housing complex in San Francisco’s Mission District designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. A response to the community’s needs for family-centered homes, affordable arts space, and cultural preservation.
Broadway Cove San Francisco, USA, on the Embarcadero: 146,000-sqft multi-building complex, composed of two elements: 125 affordable family units, and 53 senior units with studio and 1-bedroom configurations
When the previous homeowners of the Modern Sanctuary Above the City house in San Francisco enlisted Klopf Architecture to remodel the interior and make minor exterior updates, they could never have anticipated how it would pave the way for an extraordinary transformation
The Bay View campus design by BIG Architects & Heatherwick Studio, plus Google’s design and engineering teams, spans 42 acres by Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California
Designed by Levy Art + Architecture, the Russian Hill Residences project in San Francisco, California, works in scale with the urban landscape and topography of the west slope. Its mass and formal modulation conform with the texture, while at the same time creating a distinct identity
Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, property design by CMA Development: 3 new apartments over 4 levels, each unit featuring 2 levels and stacked over each other in a dynamic fashion, with views of Twin Peaks, the Bay
