[urbanlife]

Day two was a little less walking, my plan was to see the DeYoung Museum and get a glimpse of the Science Center, but designed by my two favorite architecture firms. Walked back towards downtown, then later went and caught a Giants/Cubs game.

Actually I should do a map of all the parts of San Francisco I covered.

Such an impressive structure. We really should respect the very few Nervi buildings we have in the US. (I will come back to this building on day three)
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Do I really need to mention what this is?
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Photos don't do this building justice. There is so much going on with materials and details, that you really need to walk around the building to take it all in. I wish I could of wandered around in it, but seeing it is a Federal Building, I am guessing I wouldnt of gotten far and the hassle would of been a pain in the ass.
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Walking through Golden Gate Park, I looked to my right to see this. I laughed and started walking again, then stopped and said I have to take a picture of this or no one will believe me.
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And one of the pieces of architecture I had to see while I was there. Herzog de Meuron is one of my top favorite architecture firms in the world, so yeah I got a little misty eyed while being in this building's presence, plus having my other favorite architect, Renzo Piano, right behind me added to my excitement. Any city should be honored to have their work in their city and San Francisco is lucky enough to have them together as neighbors.
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Well, it looks like it is my bedtime, so I am gonna have to continue this after work tomorrow. I hope you guys are enjoying an amazing trip I got to have this summer and if you havent been to San Francisco yet, I suggest doing it and bringing good walking shoes.

[sf_eddo]

GGP is such a wonderful treasure to this city. Did you know there is an actual BISON ENCLOSURE in there? Yeah, who knew, right?!

[OhioGuy]

I'm enjoying your photos so far. Will we be seeing some Full House and baseball shots posted in this thread? :)

[alexjon]

I read "SF" and "cubs" and thought something else.

Sorely disappointed :( :(

But beautiful pictures! Good eye :)

[BTinSF]

No pictures of Piano's Academy of Sciences? I'm going back to AZ in October but I have to see the Academy first when it opens in September.

Enjoyed the other pics.

[Gordo]

:previous: September 27th, baby! There are stickers all over the ground through the Inner Sunset and GGP pointing the way. (The stickers are shaped like paws and such)

[peanut gallery]

I'm pretty sure he'll add some shots of that later. It sounds like he's a big fan of Piano and just ran out of time last night. More great stuff, urbanlife. Keep 'em coming!

[CHapp]

:previous: I echo those sentiments.

Looking forward to the next installment, urbanlife! :tup:

[urbanlife]

the rest of day two for you guys

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I wish I could of bribed my way in for an under construction tour...guess I will be needing to take a return trip.
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I should apologize for the sky, my options were blacked out buildings with a little sky detail or building detail with burned out white sky.
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at the main entrance of the building
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From inside the courtyard.
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Inside looking out into one of the building's little pockets.
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I ask you, is it wrong to love a staircase?
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This is looking up that same staircase.
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A fun little architecture moment. Allowing the user to look at their past from a different perspective to allow them to think about where they just came from.
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Waiting for the elevator to go up to the observation floor.
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Once I got to the top, here is what I saw.
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Well on this note, I will have to stop once again, I took about 600 photos so it is going to take me some time to finish posting many of them. Hopefully I will have them all up by friday though. That is my goal. But tonight, I need to get to bed cause I have to get up early tomorrow and this is as far as I was able to get. Hope you all are enjoying it so far cause I know I had a blast walking all over that city.

[BTinSF]

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So can somebody more familiar than I am with the old Academy explain something to me? It looks like to the left of the main entrance, they have applied a section of the OLD classic facade to the new walls whereas to the right it's bare concrete. Can this be? I noticed this several months ago when I was up in the DeYoung tower. I thought "Piano is having some fun with this." Am I missing something?

[Ex-Ithacan]

Intriguing pics, gotta love San Francisco. Thanks urblife.

[CHapp]

Simply spectacular, urbanlife. :worship: Thanks for the wonderful show.

[peanut gallery]

Very comprehensive tour of DeYoung. Nice!

[mSeattle]

Very nice. It's on my list to visit.

[urbanlife]

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I was pissed I couldnt walk down the stair case in the tower, but then again, I guess they didnt want people wandering through their office space.
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he just looked funny...I mean seriously, a boy on a seahorse.
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I ate lunch across the street from here, I am guessing many of you guys know where I was.
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Where might I be?
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I would of taken more pictures, but Joey keep trying to sell me drugs and kept going on about how the Olsens' ruined him. Also forgot to take a picture of the halfway house Kimmy lived in on the next block over, but I did walk by it. It explains why DJ never really went to Kimmy's house.
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The Federal Building designed by Mayne. It looks amazing close up...but sadly this is where my batteries in my camera died and I learned my spare batteries were the ones inside my camera. So after resting for a bit and admiring the architecture, I moved on to hunt for more batteries.
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Later that night I went and watched the Cubs play against the Giants. The Cubs managed to lose this game, but I have found it funny that for two years in a row I have managed to be in a city that the Cubs were playing in, so it seemed right to go watch them play again in SF.
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The cameraman won a trophy and was quite proud of it.
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It was no Wrigley, but it was a nice stadium...granted I was getting annoyed with how much people needed to get up and wander around....just enjoy the damn game and sit down! But other than that, I had fun.
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My stroll back home led me past Libeskind's piece of crap, so I though I should take a few night shots of it...I made a return trip in the day time on day four.
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That concludes day two of my trip, I hope you have enjoyed this trip so far and I hope it was worth the wait. I am gonna try to get day three up this evening, but I am going out with a friend for some beers and conversation about my recent girl troubles, so if I am sober enough to get them up when I get home, I shall, if not, it will be this weekend.

After that, I will try to post some pics of my very brief trip back to Spokane.

[peanut gallery]

I know you were on Haight, but I don't remember exactly where that is. I'm almost certain you were somewhere east of Clayton, but that's as close as I can get.

[tech12]

Nice pics, once again!

I really like this one of the De Young:

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Also, I agree that the New Federal Building is all around a very impressive building. I love that thing.

[denveraztec]

I believe the DeYoung is made of copper? If so, I can't wait for it to begin oxidizing and looking like the statue of liberty in color. Wonderful angles in your pics!

[tech12]

I believe the DeYoung is made of copper? If so, I can't wait for it to begin oxidizing and looking like the statue of liberty in color. Wonderful angles in your pics!

Yeah, it is made of copper, the idea being that it'll oxidize and end up blending in with the surrounding trees. That'll look cool...I wonder how long it'll take to thoroughly change color though.

[urbanlife]

Yeah, it is made of copper, the idea being that it'll oxidize and end up blending in with the surrounding trees. That'll look cool...I wonder how long it'll take to thoroughly change color though.

answer to your question, about 5 years you will start to notice the color changing, 25-30 years for a complete transformation.
copper oxidation (http://www.copper.org/applications/architecture/arch_dhb/finishes/pdf/weathering_chart.pdf)

[BTinSF]

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Hey--notice the grey building with the green windows right over the second Victorian from the left? That's my place.

Anyway, as for the copper--I worry about that copper. Copper thievery is rampant. But the architect said the idea was it would turn green and blend in with the greenery of the park. Hope it doesn't take 25 years--it already looks a lot different to me than when the place first opened.

"It was no Wrigley, but it was a nice stadium" :gaah: I love that stadium and I don't even like baseball much. You can't see no stinking sailboats from Wrigley.

Finally, before you trash the Liebeskind's CJMSF, check it out inside. Seriously.

[urbanlife]

actually i have seen alot of photos from inside as well as the plans, I wasnt impressed after reading them.

I didnt say anything was wrong with the giants stadium, it was a great stadium and definitely worth the visit, just Wrigley is in a league in itself.

As for the copper, you will really start to notice it when it is 5 years old. By 10 years it will be mostly green with a hint of copper. The 25 yr marker is the time it takes to end up like the Statue of Liberty.

[peanut gallery]

The slow patina effect is one of the really cool features of that building. I look forward to watching it change over time.

I almost never like it when they graft a modern annex onto an old building, but I like the Jewish Museum. Somehow it works for me. Maybe it's because the building is situated in a way with its neighbors where you are focused on either the old part or the blue cube, but not really the two together.

[craeg]

I really love the deyoung - Thank god there were some people woth the money and wherewithall to get the thing built. If it had been left to SF at large, we wouldnt have it at all.
Like any (large) project in SF, there was years of lawsuits attempting to derail the project.
I dont think ill forget the bus stop posters with a bunch of kids faces saying "stop the deyoung!"

[dktshb]

Very nice. I like the gloomy weathertoo.

[urbanlife]

I really love the deyoung - Thank god there were some people woth the money and wherewithall to get the thing built. If it had been left to SF at large, we wouldnt have it at all.
Like any (large) project in SF, there was years of lawsuits attempting to derail the project.
I dont think ill forget the bus stop posters with a bunch of kids faces saying "stop the deyoung!"

and that is why this country lacks so much in the way of good architecture.

[SpongeG]

cool pics

need to go back to san fran missed so much

[davehogan]

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Well, it looks like it is my bedtime, so I am gonna have to continue this after work tomorrow. I hope you guys are enjoying an amazing trip I got to have this summer and if you havent been to San Francisco yet, I suggest doing it and bringing good walking shoes.

I love the pictures, I just got back today from a weekend in SF. It was great, I have some pictures I'm posting as well. I got the de Young as well, it's nice to see how it changed in just a short time!

Dave