A Designer’s Digs On The Market In Potrero: 778 Kansas
If you’re a fan of Ann Jones interiors, the listing for 778 Kansas might pique your interest. A ground up renovation by and for the interior designer, the Potrero Hill…
Parkmerced: A Cultural Landscape Foundation “Marvel of Modernism”
As a plugged-in tipster notes, San Francisco’s Parkmerced has been named to the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s 2008 “Marvels of Modernism” list. From the Foundation: Parkmerced was designed as “a city…
New Year, New Listing, And New Price (But Old Victorian Grandeur)
It’s a new year, a new listing (now an official three days on the market), and a new price (now asking $300,000/15.4% less than its asking in early December) for…
The Newsom Four (Historic Preservation Commission Nominees)
Four Mayor Newsom appointees to the newly approved Historic Preservation Commission are up for confirmation at tomorrow’s Board of Supervisors meeting. The Newsom four: Tammy Chan, environmental planner; Karl Hasz,…
San Francisco’s Sava Pool: From Rendering To Reality
A bit of San Francisco architectural beauty to end the holiday week (but not quite year). The Charlie Sava Pool: Commissioned by the City of San Francisco, Rec and Park…
Sweet Jesus (So To Speak): 601 Dolores On The Market And Inside
A plugged-in reader answers our prayers by directing us to the website for the unlisted but on the market 601 Dolores. Born the Mission Park Congregational Church in 1909 and…
The Latest Rendering For UCSF’s Medical Center at Mission Bay
By way of a plugged-in tipster, the latest rendering of UCSF’s proposed Medical Center at Mission Bay. Design by Anshen + Allen and watercolor by Al Forster. UPDATE: A plugged-in…
A New Noe Valley Apple Varietal On The Tree: “Romanesque Victorian”
Purchased for $1,310,000 in February of 2006, the self described “Romanesque Victorian” at 1507 Dolores returned to the market at the beginning of November asking $1,349,000. Two weeks later and…
If You Want To Live Like An Architect, Do The Your Math (398 Eureka)
It was a plugged-in reader that first connected the dots with regard to the listing of Phil Matthews’ AIA home tour home at 398 Eureka. Asking $2,450,000 in September and…
Transbay Transit Center: Groundbreaking Video SocketSite “Premier”
Don’t sweat it if you weren’t invited to the Transbay Transit Center Groundbreaking, we’ve got the next best thing: the groundbreaking video SocketSite “premier.” You know, that video produced by…