San Francisco Modern Architecture
A guide to interesting homes and commercial buildings.
Residences

You can see the woodsy feel of the site due to the maturity of the trees that were planted when these four buildings were built. There are three floors in each building and as far as I know they are all 4 bedroom units. These corner units are facing north so they receive little light. When I first saw these buildings, and walked through the site on the paths, I felt I was on some college campus on my way back to my dorm - they definitely have a feel of a carefully planned environment. One thing you cannot see, is these units are just blocks from public housing projects, and when I was putting my tripod in the truck of my car some crazed drug addict came toward me yelling at some unseen adversary and proceeded to kick the street sign post next to my car. I definitely would not want to live in this neighborhood. I don't know if these were built before or after the city tore down hundreds of Victorian homes and build acres of low income housing, but is is unfortunate these very affordable units (about half a million which is dirt cheap for SF) are in such a sketchy neighborhood. You can see that these units each have a fireplace (note the chimneys which are on four sides) as well as small balconys. This is as close as you can get to living the suburban dream in the city in a condo.