^^Truly original archtecture is difficult to do and even more difficult to get bureaucracies and citizen critics to accept. It's very unlikely anything really ground-breaking could be approved in SF and even if it ultimately were, it would be delayed and studied to death first. A developer trying to make money (almost all of them . . .almost) doesn't need that. He wants quick, painless approval. Note what Renzo Piano, who has done some radical things in his day including a group of towers right here in SF (at 50 First St) that, as I would have guessed, was never built, is proposing at 555 Howard: A building as plainly modernist and inoffensive as could be imagined. And note how swiftly it's getting approved because there is almost nothing to criticize except the lack of anything to criticize (or like especially except, for some, the rooftop open space).
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