469 days ago- The building at 1417 15th St. occupied by Big House Studio LLC, one of the West Coast’s major photography studios, is up for sale for $3.75 million, giving someone the chance to buy a massive live-work warehouse in The City with a notable history of corporate use.
532 days ago- In 1989, a couple surnamed Godry took a look at a “shed/carriage house/shack” belonging to a set of cottage row houses on Hyde Street and imagined it might be rebuilt as a home.
539 days ago- Casa Niños, a Hillsborough mansion designed by historic architect Clarence Tantau, is being sold shortly after a recent sale and renovation.
546 days ago- Jack Chandler of Chandler & Chandler is a well-known Napa Valley landscape architect whose work has been covered in numerous lifestyle and shelter books and magazines, and who has won awards from trade associations and the San Francisco Garden Show. But he is also a sculptor in steel, and both aspects of his art were used to make the home he’s now selling.
560 days ago- When Ernest Coxhead was designing 2940 Jackson St., San Francisco, in the mid-1890s, he knew what he didn’t want, namely the elaborate wooden gingerbread and curlicues that characterized much of the residential architecture of the time.
567 days ago- Between getting his civil engineering degree in 1906 and building his house in 1936, Armenian immigrant Levon Nishkian designed a lot of things that make San Francisco work. As an employee of City Hall and later as a private businessman, he designed the two Gunst buildings, the Furniture Exchange at Market and 10th streets, the Loews Warfield Theater at Market and Taylor streets, the Third Street bridge at Islais Creek and parts of the Hetch Hetchy water system, the waterfront and the Golden Gate and Bay bridges.