Making a quick trip to SF this weekend - could anyone suggest some must-do-architecture hot spots around there?
Thank you!
tuna
Dec 28, 11 2:45 pm
The California Academy of Sciences
ovalle
Dec 28, 11 3:52 pm
H&DM -De Young Museum (visit tower, it's free)
Portman - Embarcadero Center and Hyatt Hotel
Botta - SFMoma ( afterwards walk over to yerba buena gardens)
Wright - Xanadu Gallery
Nervi - Saint Mary’s Cathedral
Morphosis - Federal Building (unfortunately it's closed on weekends)
Paffard Keating Clay - SF Art Institute
William Stout Architecture Books
If you have a car you can drive over to Marin and visit Wright's Marin County City Center building. Or head to Oakland and visit SOM's Cathedral and the Oakland’s Museum of California by Dinkeloo & Roche.
dbunton
Dec 29, 11 12:14 am
Berkeley Art Museum (Mario Ciampi) is a must see if you're in the area...its a quick BART ride from the city
BrianYamagata
Dec 29, 11 12:44 am
You can also check out Libeskind's Jewish Art Museum Addition. It's right near Botta's SFMOMA.
CitizenWalker
Dec 29, 11 9:38 am
Thanks a lot guys! In a flight to SF right now!
thomas carlson
Nov 29, 13 3:46 am
Berkeley art museum is really nice and i want to go their for any means. Art gallery is my weakness.
TIQM
Nov 29, 13 7:22 pm
San Francisco City Hall - Arthur Brown.
Miles Jaffe
Nov 29, 13 7:26 pm
There is a Greene and Greene house on the UC Berkeley campus. If you search online you'll find it. Email and you just might be able to get a personal tour. I did, and it was magnificent, even considering the well-used condition.
observant
Nov 29, 13 7:33 pm
San Francisco is not known for good skyscrapers. Quite the opposite, Most high rises are lackluster. The only 2 noteworthy ones as the Transamerica Pyramid (SOM ? - 1974) and the Bank of America Tower on California with the serrations (don't remember the architect, but it was a major firm, maybe Gensler). As for the more famous civic ones, most have been mentioned. Be sure to hit Berkeley on the weekend when the hippies are having their weekend market and you can check out the tie-dyed clothing. I'm assuming they're still on Shattuck Avenue, under tented stands. UC Berkeley's campanile is identical to that of Saint Mark's Square of Venice Italy except that it's (off) white, to match most other campus buildings of its day.
SDR
Nov 29, 13 10:18 pm
Bank of America World Headquarters Building, 1970-71; Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, Inc, and SOM with Pietro Belluschi, design consultant; Transamerica Pyramid, 1972; William Pereira & Assoc.
observant
Nov 29, 13 10:28 pm
^ Close on the years, but missed the architects. I knew major firms were associated with these buildings. Pereira, really? Interesting. So many of the high-rise buildings in the Financial District are so bland compared to, say, Chicago's Loop.
By the way, the hippies in Berkeley on Shattuck may be too young to be hippies, so they might be granolas. I had to think about that.
Add: Palace of Fine Arts, Marina district, architect: Bernard Maybeck (that one I remember).
Making a quick trip to SF this weekend - could anyone suggest some must-do-architecture hot spots around there?
Thank you!
The California Academy of Sciences
H&DM -De Young Museum (visit tower, it's free)
Portman - Embarcadero Center and Hyatt Hotel
Botta - SFMoma ( afterwards walk over to yerba buena gardens)
Wright - Xanadu Gallery
Nervi - Saint Mary’s Cathedral
Morphosis - Federal Building (unfortunately it's closed on weekends)
Paffard Keating Clay - SF Art Institute
William Stout Architecture Books
If you have a car you can drive over to Marin and visit Wright's Marin County City Center building. Or head to Oakland and visit SOM's Cathedral and the Oakland’s Museum of California by Dinkeloo & Roche.
Berkeley Art Museum (Mario Ciampi) is a must see if you're in the area...its a quick BART ride from the city
You can also check out Libeskind's Jewish Art Museum Addition. It's right near Botta's SFMOMA.
Thanks a lot guys! In a flight to SF right now!
Berkeley art museum is really nice and i want to go their for any means. Art gallery is my weakness.
San Francisco City Hall - Arthur Brown.
There is a Greene and Greene house on the UC Berkeley campus. If you search online you'll find it. Email and you just might be able to get a personal tour. I did, and it was magnificent, even considering the well-used condition.
San Francisco is not known for good skyscrapers. Quite the opposite, Most high rises are lackluster. The only 2 noteworthy ones as the Transamerica Pyramid (SOM ? - 1974) and the Bank of America Tower on California with the serrations (don't remember the architect, but it was a major firm, maybe Gensler). As for the more famous civic ones, most have been mentioned. Be sure to hit Berkeley on the weekend when the hippies are having their weekend market and you can check out the tie-dyed clothing. I'm assuming they're still on Shattuck Avenue, under tented stands. UC Berkeley's campanile is identical to that of Saint Mark's Square of Venice Italy except that it's (off) white, to match most other campus buildings of its day.
Bank of America World Headquarters Building, 1970-71; Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, Inc, and SOM with Pietro Belluschi, design consultant; Transamerica Pyramid, 1972; William Pereira & Assoc.
^ Close on the years, but missed the architects. I knew major firms were associated with these buildings. Pereira, really? Interesting. So many of the high-rise buildings in the Financial District are so bland compared to, say, Chicago's Loop.
By the way, the hippies in Berkeley on Shattuck may be too young to be hippies, so they might be granolas. I had to think about that.
Add: Palace of Fine Arts, Marina district, architect: Bernard Maybeck (that one I remember).
Our Lady of Maytag
Brutal collaboration by Nervi with sublime interior.
Sentinel Building
just wander around - and look between the buildings -
http://www.paulmadonna.com/
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O_O too eerily similar...