fimiak - thanks for the update & cool link. I see the bridge work is being done at night so as not to disrupt traffic. It is so strange to see the bridge over the street!
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(Essex) Fox Plaza resident 54th year in 2025 - (the building everyone loves to hate :------>))
The concourse exhibition center is completely gone. still cleaning up the mess and still need to tear up the old foundation. 1 henry adams, down the block, has just started going up though.
accompanying pics... concourse exhibition center, from west:
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This is already quite a substantial structure, and right next door is Salesforce Tower! Makes all the years of wait worth it. It seems all variety of media suggest that San Francisco is in a renaissance, but we have yet to know what fruit the renaissance bears until the next 50+ projects are complete over the next five years.
^Well, to paraphrase a comment in the Rotterdam thread, at least it didn't feature a facade in dark grey and orange with asymmetrical window patterns...
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^ I still happen to love that Euro trend which, I think, started in the Netherlands indeed. It might well be a little too common around here these days, a price to pay for success, but I think people should admit, it's been a huge contribution and improvement to contemporary modernism. When combined with other tricks, it's still great.
That being said, the building called in question above is ok, huh. They just can't reinvent everything for every single building.
This building fills in the path of the freeway that used to be over Hayes Street. Tearing it down removed a physiological barrier & allowed Hayes street to develop further up the hill. In a few years there will be few who remember it. I remember when it used to be a very scary area.
In a few years there will be few who remember it. I remember when it used to be a very scary area.
I remember. I lived at Oak and Octavia in
'93-'94 and then right next to the freeway on Elgin Park near McCoppin from '95 to '98. There was lots of petty crime, homeless encampments, street hookers, and drug dealing going on all around and under the elevated freeway.
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"You need both a public and a private position." --Hillary Clinton, speaking behind closed doors to the National Multi-Family Housing Council, 2013
fflint - I had 2 friend who owned a building on Elgin Park, Ed & Paul. My twin in 1967 lived next to it at that location.
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I remember. I lived at Oak and Octavia in
'93-'94 and then right next to the freeway on Elgin Park near McCoppin from '95 to '98. There was lots of petty crime, homeless encampments, street hookers, and drug dealing going on all around and under the elevated freeway.
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(Essex) Fox Plaza resident 54th year in 2025 - (the building everyone loves to hate :------>))
Today the Dolby Building gets a large sign attached to it. Most people are not aware as to how much remodel has happened as they can only see the first floor construction. At night I can see the interior which has been completely remodeled & the patios that are now resurfaced with new plant containers.
There is no view of Trinity Place yet from the Essex Fox Plaza.
The David Baker Architects-designed building has a "pleated" exterior to reflect the area's design history, as the neighborhood is still filled with furniture, rug and antique stores. The 449-unit complex will also lease 3,000 square feet of space to a non-profit organization that supports low-income chefs and startup food businesses.
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801 Brannan has 37,000 square feet of open space designed by CMG Landscape and includes a redwood grove and a garden pathway between Brannan Street and Bluxome Alley. For residents – likely to include many SoMa tech workers – the project will have a small gym, outdoor lounge, bike repair shop and outdoor barbecue spots.
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I still happen to love that Euro trend which, I think, started in the Netherlands indeed. It might well be a little too common around here these days, a price to pay for success, but I think people should admit, it's been a huge contribution and improvement to contemporary modernism. When combined with other tricks, it's still great.
The 400 block of Hayes
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