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What Will Become of Julius’ Castle Restaurant Up on Telegraph Hill? Now It’s...
TweetSince 1922: Click to expand What’s next for the old JC? It’s not much of a castle any more:
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San Francisco’s Trinity Church Looks Just Like Hogwarts, Except for That...
TweetCan you spot the ladder marring the view – does it belong up there? Click to expand Workers are supposed to hook in and then traverse. See? But if there’s a slip-up, a person could land on the...
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Know Better Your Historical, Badass, Elevator Door Emblems: Robert Dollar...
TweetThis thing is huge: Click to expand Now you know better the Robert Dollar Building
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When Oh When Will San Francisco Be Rid of Vaillancourt Fountain? It Riffs Off...
TweetVaillancourt Fountain was a comment on its former neighbor, the Embarcadero Freeway. But the freeway is all gone, so why are we still stuck with the fountain? Remember when SFGov shut down this...
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The Future is Now: Getting to Know Embarcadero Center by Looking at a 3D Model
TweetAll right, what most people consider Embarcadero Center are the taller buildings all in a row, from left to right, EC1, EC2, EC3, and EC4. And then the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero is considered...
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Know Your Financial District Buildings: Pre-Quake, Post-Quake, Post-Modern,...
TweetFrom California Street, starting in the lower right: 400 Montgomery, the Alvinza Hayward Building, aka the Kohl Building, 130+ feet tall, 1901 500 California, the Omni Hotel, these days anyway,...
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San Francisco City Hall: The Largest Classical Dome in the Western...
TweetThis is the scene at the end of Dreamforce 2012, one of San Francisco’s largest events in recent memory. 89,999 registrants had moved on at this point last night – here’s the last one: Click to...
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Box, Cantilever, Pipe, Brace: Beautiful San Francisco Architecture – Who’s...
TweetNear Mervyn’s Heights: Click to expand NB: Never use the term “starchitect” without putting it inside quote marks or otherwise showing the reader what a joke the word is.
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Gethsemane Baptist Church is Turning Into a Single Family Residence? “THERE...
TweetThis is the scene in the Western Addition at 601 Broderick and Grove, the site of Gethsemane Baptist Church Click to expand The graffiti is new, you see it? It’s all, “THERE GOES THE...
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The “Conspiracy of Silence” That Built San Francisco’s World-Famous Sutro Tower
TweetLocal writer Anne Herbert, famous for coining the phrase “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty,” recently announced on her blog: The closer I live to Sutro Tower, the more I think...
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Here It Is, Your “Dramatic” New Airport Control Tower at SFO, About Halfway...
TweetSeptember 2013: Click to expand It’ll have a torch-like air, they say.
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100 Van Ness Has Been Stripped to the Bone – You’ll be Able to Move In Soon –...
TweetI’d like to open my remarks with a humorous anecdote. The Official Bird of San Francisco isn’t the California Quail, it’s the crane. [Pause for gasps and puzzled looks.] The construction* crane!...
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Pyramid Skyline: Infinity “Towers” 1 & 2; 2 Rincon Center (Unfinished) & 1;...
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The San Mateo County Flintstone House is Blood Orange These Days? – If You...
TweetIn my day, this residence was white. And that was the way we liked it. All the deets: The Flintstone House is a free-form, single-family residence in Hillsborough, California overlooking, and best...
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Marketing a Mid-Market Apartment Building with the Slogan “AMENITIES, NOT...
TweetNow I’ll tell you, I have no idea as to why a building literally made in San Francisco would market itself as being “MADE IN SAN FRANCISCO.” And yet, that’s what we have now with NeMa, the “New...
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Door to Nowhere, Painted Over, Four Stories Above the Ground, Odd Fellow’s...
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Tall, Taller, Tallest: One Rincon North, One Rincon South, Mount Diablo
TweetCome for the views, stay for the tuned sloshing dampers: Click to expand
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Living Up In The Clouds: Your View of Sutro Tower from a Higher Than Average...
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Here’s What Our Massive “Left Coast Lifter” Barge Crane is Doing These Days:...
TweetCould be: “The massive crane is expected to be used during construction of the New Tappan Zee Bridge, a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River in New York State by Tappan...
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What’s This, the NeMA Building Version of The Bachelor? Software-American...
TweetHere it is, writer Sarah Tilton’s latest in the Wall Street Journal: “How Techies Are Transforming San Francisco - A generation of technology workers is bringing startups, venture capitalists—and...
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