{"id":216,"date":"2007-10-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-10-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:00:00","slug":"san-francisconew-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/san-francisconew-york\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\/New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/saitowitz.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/saitowitz.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">1234 Howard Street \u2022 Stanley Saitowitz, architect<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Back in New York, I just want to point to two urban infill projects in the Bay Area that I took quick snapshots of. While I was photographing David Baker&#8217;s 8th and Howard project I came across the building above. I wasn&#8217;t sure who the architect was, but found it interesting, and took a picture. Looking it up later, I see that it&#8217;s by <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saitowitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley Saitowitz<\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">, a prominent Bay Area architect. He&#8217;s, perhaps, best known for the Yerba Buena Lofts on Folsom Street. Like Baker, much of his work is in the South of Market area of San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/bluestar.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/bluestar.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestarcorner.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Star Corner <\/a>\u2022 Emeryville, California \u2022 David Baker, architect<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">On my way to the airport I stopped by Emeryville to see another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbarchitect.com\/\">David Baker<\/a> project. It&#8217;s 20 townhouses built around the block from an earlier loft complex that I photographed. The project is in a hodgepodge area of warehouses, big box stores, shopping malls, and highways. Down the street is Pixar, the animation studio, which hides behind a screen of fencing and lush landscaping. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Baker&#8217;s houses face onto landscaped courtyards\u2013he calls it mews housing\u2013and each unit has a garage. Baker and the developer based the townhouse concept on similar housing in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam. The idea is to establish, or re-establish, dense urban structure in places like Emeryville. The small unit footprints, and varying facade treatments produce a richer, less monolithic appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Saitowitz and Baker have very different approaches to the urban environment, but both, in my opinion, lead the way in reinventing the city in the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1234 Howard Street \u2022 Stanley Saitowitz, architect Back in New York, I just want to point to two urban infill projects in the Bay Area that I took quick snapshots of. While I was photographing David Baker&#8217;s 8th and Howard project I came across the building above. I wasn&#8217;t sure who the architect was, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}