Studio Gang reveals a new, 400-foot tall residential tower called "MIRA" for San Francisco's Transbay neighborhood. The building features classic bay windows staggered in a twisting design around the structure.
The design provides each unit with ample lighting and views of the bay, while also creating a high-performance facade reducing energy consumption.
40% of the building's units have been designated to be priced below market rate.
The high rise also includes sustainable features such as a VRF cooling system, a graywater harvesting system, green roofs, and high-efficiency fixtures and is targeted for LEED Gold certification.
The base and top are quite disappointing, missed opportunities, and the middle is too repetitive.
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That's screwed up.
Somebody please tell Studio Gang that parametricism is dead.
Do those show before or after the earthquake?
looks exactly like the Brooklyn project, which would be great if it wasn’t hideous
Cmon architects we can do better than this
40% below market rate isn't too shabby.
unfortunately this probably won't begin construction before the next bubble collapse, and that collapse has started.
Because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it. And I hate to be Mrs. Doubtfire but I doubt that each unit has a view of the Bay. 40% below market should make it affordable to the disadvantaged "folks" who are looking in the $6 million range.
this is a sad mutation of OMA’s XL project type. Instead of the inside out design approach and unexpected results, the BIG GANG creates forms for magazine pages and investments, not to be used and occupied
The base and top are quite disappointing, missed opportunities, and the middle is too repetitive.
I want to like it. I almost like it. But randomised is right.
For, SF, "priced below market rate" = 2.0 million for a studio.
Doctor Strange, FAIA
they better hurry up and get it built - here we go again - shades of 08'
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea...
For those of you that don't get how the BMR units work in SF, each available unit is capped at a specific income level; that is, your income cannot exceed a specified amount. For example, there's currently a 1 bedroom one unit available with a sale price set at $235k, and the MAX an applicant can make is $66,300 for a one person household, or $76,000 for a two person household. If you can make the payments (and win the unit in the SF lottery type system) you're eligible to buy the unit. That being said, the bigger kick in the **** are inevitably the HOA dues... The example above comes with $375 a month HOA dues!
Other examples, for the sake of discussion:
LO-fucking-L at that last one.
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