There’s a visually striking addition to the ever-troubled Tenderloin — a nine-story structure clad in colorful brick that holds 113 apartments for low-income residents, plus a pair of community-oriented retail spaces.
Too bad it took 11 years to summon the newcomer into existence.
— The San Francisco Chronicle
John King, The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic, takes a look at the David Baker Architects-designed 222 Taylor project, the fruits of a long-running effort to build affordable housing in San Francisco.
While lamenting the long and drawn-out design and approval process the 133-unit, 100-percent affordable housing project underwent, King praises DBA's work, overall, saying, "Baker is one of our most dependably creative architects, adept at both ultra-lux infill like Hayes Valley’s 300 Ivy and low-income housing complexes he’s designed for nonprofit developers for two decades. His trademarks are on show here, such as the board-formed concrete or the windows framed by emphatic metal sunshades."
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