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"The architecture has a lot of things that are unique about it", says Daniel Simons, principal in charge at local firm David Baker Architects (DBA), which designed the building, Tahanan Supportive Housing. Only Tahanan's ground floor - which includes a community room, ten private counseling offices, a nurse's room, exam room, and staff support - was built in place. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,046 MULTIFAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUCE DAMONTE IN SAN FRANCISCO'S South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, where the average price of a home is $858,000, innovative design joined creative financing to speed production of a 145-unit permanent housing complex for the formerly unhoused. [Extracted from the article]

The concern was instigated by Lisa Stone Pritzker, who, with her husband John Pritzker, helped fund the building - named in honor of John's sister, who died by suicide at age 24, in 1972. Parnassus Heights, with its white hillside towers, is very different from the Pritzker Building's neighborhood of Dogpatch, which used to be dominated by industrial buildings and workers' housing built along bayside docks, but which has been undergoing a change. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,043 HEALTH CARE THE NANCY FRIEND PRITZKER Psychiatry Building celebrates this branch of medical practice as worthy of high design. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,035 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES THE FIRST THING you notice is the light: a skylit six-story central atrium, sunbathed patient-treatment rooms, rows of daylit lab benches, and a broad, sunset-facing rooftop terrace. SUNLIT spaces include a clinic waiting room at the entrance (top, left) and third-floor infusion suite (top, right), plus sixth-floor meeting room (left), and "town center" (above). The north, south, and west elevations enable this strategy with a recessed glass curtain wall at the two lower clinic levels and a procession of white aluminum louvers that defines the four upper research floors. [Extracted from the article]

RESIDENTIAL GEODE ADU, designed by San Francisco - based IwamotoScott Architecture, offers a quiet complement to a Midcentury Modern Californian dwelling. 1 PATIO 2 LIVING/SLEEPING 3 WORK AREA 4 BATHROOM 5 KITCHENETTE 6 MAIN HOUSE The ADU's prismatic form contrasts with the main house (opposite, top). Shares few characteristics, other than vertical siding and radiant floor heating, with the main residence; more significant is the spatial interplay between the two. [Extracted from the article]