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For more than a year, we've navigated an ever-evolving landscape of dining parklets and slow streets. Social distancing stickers dot sidewalks outside stores with plexiglass shields. Urban policy think-tanks predicted the pandemic would prompt wholesale conversion of office towers to housing, and apartments with extra rooms for working from home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there's one thing to know about the architecture of airports, it is this: They're like convention centers. They're always in an expansion mode. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there's one thing to know about the architecture of airports, it is this: They're like convention centers. They're always in an expansion mode. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No tech firm embodies the dubious virtues of "disruption" more than Uber, the 2009 startup now valued at $102 billion that relies on "independent" drivers who clog city streets while trying to make a decent living. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you haven't visited central San Francisco since March 2020, be prepared for unfamiliar sights - like when you see an old friend and realize that your mental snapshot is out of date. The changes go far beyond social distancing decals on sidewalks outside the stores and cafes that remain open (bless them!). We're talking reimagined public spaces and newly opened towers, along with smaller buildings that add a visual jolt to once-busy corners. So if you are heading in, to work or shop or simply wander, these 10 spots are worth a visit - destinations conceived before life as we knew it slammed to a halt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new housing at Telegraph Avenue and 51st Street in Oakland is a stylish demonstration of the design potential of a much-ballyhooed building method. It's also a cautionary tale. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With its award-winning contemporary design that includes one section shaped like a zinc-clad tube, Clifton Hall stood out when it opened in 2003 at the California College of the Arts in Oakland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The violence inflicted on America Wednesday by Donald Trump and his mob shows how vulnerable our democracy is to a would-be authoritarian who craves power and adulation above all else. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After the San Francisco Giants opened their atmospheric ballpark along the bay, the south shore of China Basin spent two decades as a parking lot mostly used by fans on game days. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Another building at UC Berkeley will get a new name - not because of the namesake's sins, but to honor a woman whose principled legacy embodies what is taught inside. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Another building at UC Berkeley will get a new name - not because of the namesake's sins, but to honor a woman whose principled legacy embodies what is taught inside. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Forget skyscraping towers and highfalutin cultural temples. The architectural icon that symbolizes 2020 is the humble dining parklet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the glum totality of all that has happened or could happen in 2020, the new paint job on an innocuous house in San Francisco's Outer Sunset barely merits a shrug. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unlike most major cities, San Francisco is loved for the topography of its steep varied hills, some cloaked in houses, others swathed in evergreen trees. But there's another form of topography that it does share with other metropolitan centers: a skyline. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In more ways than not, two of San Francisco's newest residential buildings are designed for wholly different worlds. But they share one profoundly satisfying aspect: Their backyards are to die for. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Swiss architects who turned heads with their metal-clad de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park have been selected to design an even larger project - a new hospital for UCSF not far to the south in Parnassus Heights. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco International Airport planned to spend the next two weeks unveiling its newest terminal redo with a nightly stream of events for everyone from construction workers to travel industry bigwigs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bay Area's economic boom brings a steady stream of new buildings and spaces around us, plus the political and social tumult that can make physical changes seem beside the point. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco Federal Building, as befits an 18-story structure clad in sheets of steel, is a lightning rod. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's a sad sign of the times that some of San Francisco's most creative architectural energy is focused on bringing a spark of humanity to large-scale, short-term housing for homeless people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Don't look to central Oakland's two new residential towers for skyline pyrotechnics. Each is a tailored slab set atop a parking-filled podium. Could be better, could be worse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Choosing the word that sums up the evolution of San Francisco's urban landscape these past 10 years is easy: profound. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Forget the harsh edge of the streets below or the grind of President Trump's daily dramas. Cast your eyes upward instead, to San Francisco's skyline with its soothing glow of seasonal colors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The large panel of wood that hovered in the air above a De Haro Street construction site last Friday was something never seen before in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The best word to describe the architectural thrust of the Giants' huge Mission Rock waterfront project is - audacious. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Fifty years after it opened, the Oakland Museum of California is about to do something that should have happened long ago - open itself up to Lake Merritt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chase Center is designed to turn heads: It's a circular form 135 feet high that covers 4.25 acres and is clad in what look like spools of white metal, a sleek wall punctured in two spots for immense glass walls that mark the main entrances. But the Warriors' new billion-dollar home has less obvious twists as well. Here are seven to look for: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Golden State Warriors may favor the fast break on the basketball court, but in terms of promoting Chase Center, their new home in San Francisco, the team has mastered the art of the slow reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's a visually striking addition to the ever-troubled Tenderloin - a nine-story structure clad in colorful brick that holds 113 apartments for low-income residents, plus a pair of community-oriented retail spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

C�sar Pelli, the internationally known architect who, with his firm, designed San Francisco's Salesforce Tower and the three-block-long transit center alongside it, died Friday. He was 92. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As much as any single new building downtown, the tower dubbed the Avery embodies the grand, often clashing ambitions of today's San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the three-block-long park atop San Francisco's transit center reopens Monday, we'll again be able to stand among green trees and shrubs and contemplate the changing city around us. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley will have a new dean next year - an academic who's also a well-connected designer schooled in the big-city issues and politics of New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley will have a new dean next year - an academic who's also a well-connected designer schooled in the big-city issues and politics of New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The best buildings, whatever their style or scale, reveal themselves over time. The structural elements and design flourishes gain depth by how we experience them, the extra dimensions that gradually are unveiled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In our superheated landscape of ever-taller skylines and ever-more-distant sprawl, a 65-foot-tall structure proposed by UC Berkeley might not seem like that big a deal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's nothing discreet about the Mormon temple perched with cinematic grandeur in the Oakland hills, as anyone who has looked up at its five towers crested with blue and gold tiles can attest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

George Homsey, the son of a San Francisco automobile mechanic who became one of the city's revered and quietly influential architects, died on Monday of heart failure. He was 93. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Strange though it may sound, San Francisco's future is on view at long-moribund Pier 70, where buildings once filled with ironworkers sat empty for decades. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]