^Again, you're misunderstanding preservation vs an owner not willing to sell. Two very different scenarios.
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Originally Posted by pawelsf
Oh, but I didn’t say small streetscape buildings are unimportant! Please don’t misconstrue me there. I happen to love smaller buildings as well. I am just being realistic enough to conceed that there ought to be qualifications to preservation, so as to avoid being guilty of preservation for the sake of preservation – something I think San Francisco is notoriously guilty of (think North Beach library). I am only talking about this particular project’s site with respect to the future neigborhood of the city’s tallest towers. The two tiny buildings will simply not allow a tall tower on that prime, prime, prime corner lot to be built.
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Except that given the context of those two buildings, the architects have done EXACTLY that, designed a tall tower on a prime site. The fact that they've done so without being able to use the prime corner actually makes it more interesting.