San Francisco Achitecture Photographs

[SkyHigh]

Whilst I'm at it, I might as well start to put up some architecture photographs from my last 3 month tour of 14 of the western and central United States.

These ones are of San Francisco taken in the autumn of 2004 (November).

Please excuse the lack of quality, was using a 1.3mp digital camera at the time I was there.

Here we go:

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Oh my giddy aunt, the image quality is appalling, I'm so terribly sorry. It's almost laughable putting these up, feel a mite embarrassed now. :eek:

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Ok lets see how these look, before I post up some more. :(

[SkyHigh]

Blimey!! It's worse than I thought. :eek: :D

Might as well carry on I guess.

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Last random few of SF and area, some general ones too:

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Alcatraz in the background:

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Alcatraz in the background again:

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And again:

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Overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge:

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[ablarc]

What a City!

[Meerkat]

Great pictures!! I'm going there myself in a few months:cool:

[STT757]

Absolutely best City (and area) of the US, this coming from a Native New Yorker.

If your going make sure to get a Irish Coffee at Buena Vista, and grab Dinner at the Stinking Rose. And even if your not into baseball AT&T field is an amazing place to visit.

[Zephyr]

I first traveled to this city for graduate school, not expecting it to be anything other than an American version of say Vancouver, but it surprised me.

I lived in this city, or near it for several years thereafter, off-and-on, before finally going East for even more schooling, and what turned out to be the pursuit of a second career. I still have a home there, several miles north of the City by the Bay.

As many know, the Architecture is different than most California cities, but aside from a few gems, it is just not that adventuresome for my taste. Yet it has a certain inexplicable charm, and a very strange and equally fascinating history that continues into the present. One is reminded of this history in tiny Russian cemeteries, Japanese enclaves, dual Chinatowns, the Haight, Mission District, Telegraph Hill, and the Stockton Street Tunnel that pierces the hills.

I would not want to say it is the greatest in the US, just one of the most urbane and livable. I do remember those marvelous vistas down streets, and on hilltops, particularly in the golden light of late afternoon, when weather and time-of-year permitted it. Then there are the many fine restaurants and the fact that it's so small that you can traverse it quite easily, in spite of those monstrous inclines in many areas. This makes it the right scale, comprehensible rather than too large to grasp. And it photographs well with the crudest of equipment or with the slightest eye.

I never tire of looking at it, even once removed with photographs, but the sights, sounds and even the smells will never be captured so easily in this way - necessitating that trip you must take to just experience it in the proper way.

[Fahzee]

Interesting Photo essay by Witold Rybczynski on the New Thom Mayne designed Federal Building, in Downtown SF

http://www.slate.com/id/2195682/