San Diego is the 8th largest city in the United States by population (1,355,000) and is by far the largest city of the San Diego-Carlsbad Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern California (the 12th largest in the United States).
Downtown is located on the Eastern side of San Diego Bay, a natural harbor that is about 13 miles long and averages about 1 mile wide. A bend in the bay's shoreline embraces the Western and Southern boundaries of downtown, while a bend in the Interstate Freeway #5 creates the Eastern and Northern boundaries. It is about 1.5 miles from East to West and 1.3 miles from North to South. The terrain is mostly flat, with gradual slopes up from the shoreline, reaching a steeper incline in the Northeast corner at the area called Cortez Hill. Downtown has a wide variety of uses and structures, and is a lively and attractive place in comparison to its condition before the developments of the past 25 years.
This thread will focus on contemporary lowrises and midrises built in the last 15 years or so.
Houses:
Several unique individual houses or duplexes are scattered around downtown, mostly in the Little Italy neighborhood.
Lowrise Residential Complexes:
Midrises:
A large part of downtown is now occupied by contemporary midrises, especially in the East Village and Little Italy neighborhoods. Many are residential, but there are also examples of hotels and parking garages as well as some offices.
Garfield High School:
San Diego City College:
This campus on the Eastern edge of downtown and its East Village neighborhood is not a new school but it has recently undergone an ambitious new building program of interesting structures.
San Diego Central Library:
All photographs taken in 2014 by geomorph.
For my other San Diego threads, see:
Balboa Park - Part 1:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216147
Balboa Park - Part 2:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216165
Downtown - Waterfront Part 1:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216189
Downtown - Waterfront Part 2:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216200
Downtown - Historic to Postmodern Buildings:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216754
Downtown - Contemporary Highrises:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=216804
University of California, San Diego - Part 1:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=227444
University of California, San Diego - Part 2:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=227488