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The Lazy Pigeons of Randy Shaw’s Corrupt Twitterloin: Steps of Hibernia Bank
TweetThere they are: Click to expand This is the Hibernia Bank branch that Patty Hearst didn’t rob.
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City Hall Goes Orange for the 2012 San Francisco Giants – And This Color Will...
TweetLike this. Celebrating another good year: Click to expand 09/25 Diamondbacks 7 - 2 Giants -Recap-Box Score 09/26 Diamondbacks 0 - 6 Giants -Recap-Box Score 09/27 Diamondbacks 3 - 7 Giants...
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Manager of Empty, Graffiti-Strewn Financial District Building Strikes Back...
TweetHere’s the Before… …and here’s the After: Click to expand You’d think the managers would have a better strategy against graffiti, but you’d be wrong…
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In Addition to Killing People in San Bruno, PG&E Constructs Large Ugly...
TweetIs this San Francisco’s ugliest large building or what? But, as usual, the pro-business SPUR orgnaization has a boner for anything have anthing to do with PG&E and/or the San Francisco City...
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555 California Isn’t as Rectangular as You Think It Is – Corner Offices for...
TweetI don’t know, I didn’t think 555 California was so …. jaggedy. It looks like The Emerald City to me. Let’s call it the Carnelian City,* or the Vermilion City: Click to expand And The Donald owns...
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Box, Cantilever, Pipe, Brace: Beautiful San Francisco Architecture – Who’s...
TweetNear Mervyn’s Heights: Click to expand NB: Never use the term “starchitect” without putting it inside quote marks or otherwise showing the reader what a joke the word is.
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This Huge Emblem at the Front of Our Standard Oil Building at 225 Bush Looks...
TweetSee? Petroleum powers cars and ships – I suppose that’s The Message from the Builders of 225 Bush. Contrast that with the message from the current owners of 225 Bush found on this Wiki entry,...
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The Church of UC Hastings Law School
Tweet100 McAllister in the Tenderloin / Twitterloin started off life as a church / hotel. Can you tell? Click to expand
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When Trannies Attack: This Giant Liebherr Crane High Atop Our Pacific Bell...
TweetLook at this monster perched high atop 140 New Montgomery Street, up there with all those Neo-Gothic eagle statues. Reminds of when Devastator climbed up one of those pyramids in that Transformers...
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The Financial District’s Ugliest Building – A Clock Tower in the 94105? –...
TweetWhat the Hell is this, just south of the slot at Market and Second? Click to expand I cry foul.
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A Real-Life Carl Fredricksen: This Homeowner on Oak Street Looks Like the...
TweetExcept this guy didn’t fly away using balloons. He stayed put and watched larger buildings go up around him. Anytown, USA plopped down on busy, busy Oak Street, San Francisco: Click to expand
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Presidio Update: Say Good-Bye to the Sports Basement and Hello to a New Use...
TweetOoh, it’s a beauty contest to see what’s going to replace the Sports Basement near Crissy Field. I’ll tell you, the proposal from George Lucas stands out, does it not? Check it: He’s all, “There...
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The See-Through Skyscrapers of South of Market – Now Our PacBell Building...
TweetFirst, our PacBell Building in SoMA was all like this. Then is was all like this. Now it’s all like this, so you can see through entire floors. Say hello to the higher floors of a totally gutted...
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The Truth About Elizabeth Stampe and Walk to Work Day: A Front for Real...
TweetHere’s the bus ad: Click to expand And here’s the punchline: “Paramount Group is going on the offensive on the waterfront, trying to build early community support for a planned 350-foot-tall...
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Uh, Does 100 Van Ness Have a Sunroof Now? Sure Looks That Way
TweetLook, it’s totally wide open: Just saying, Brocephus
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How to NIMBY: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, 731 Market Street
Tweet(I was going to post this public hearing notice legibly, but I don’t want to make things too easy for the shakedown artists to come out of the woodwork.) If you have some time to kill and you’d...
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Painting the “Russian Embassy” of the Western Addition is a Biiiiiig Job – A...
TweetHere’s the quote, from the 1960′s: “Up at Fulton and Scott is a great shambling old Gothic house, a freaking decayed giant, known as The Russian Embassy” And here she is now, getting one shade of...
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Ah, the 351 California Building: Erupting Office-Worker Poo onto the Sidewalk...
TweetHere’s some background and now let’s have an update. San Francisco’s Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea of poo: Stepping over and on raw sewage, on a daily basis: Is this rainwater? You wish. It’s the...
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I Don’t Know, a Studio Apartment in the New NEMA “New Market” Building for...
TweetNEMA begins showings today. Here’s Unit #324 at 469 square feet: Based upon what bedbug-ridden studios in the Tenderloin go for these days, $1950 doesn’t sound all that cray-cray…
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The Reskinning of 100 Van Ness Continues – Our Old AAA Building is Now...
TweetAll the deets: 100 Van Ness Repurposed, Redesigned And Rendered Here’s how things looked last month: And now, these days, it’s even more totally wide open: Click to expand
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