Baldacchino, St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
An element out of ancient Catholic architecture reimagined for modernity in the first cathedral built in the US following Vatican II.
San Francisco
Olympic Hotel/Alexander Residence, San Francisco
Urban renewal, displacement, residential hotels, and the Tenderloin.
Hotel Lankershim/Hotel Zetta, San Francisco
One of the hundreds of San Francisco residential hotels converted to tourist use.
St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
Ecclesiastical modernism, structural expressionism, urban renewal, Vatican II, plagiarism and...parking minimums?!
Padre Junípero Serra Monument, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Monuments, mythmaking, and iconoclasm—a pretty normal American story.