11/9/2023 0 Comments Marble roll millennium tower![]() ![]() I have a soft spot for Embarcadero Center, and so does the fucking earth. Doesn’t matter anyway like a quaking aspen, it’s all the same system at root. I’ve never been clear on how many of these things there even are. It’s for sale, if you have a billion dollars.Īttempted nod to San Francisco’s trademark bay windows: 3/10.Įmbarcadero Center isn’t just a weird mall - it is also this. It feels like such a pure extrusion of the eighties, with the marble and the air of corporate menace, but that means that it was ahead of its time. ![]() I like 555 California a little more when I consider it in light of when it was actually built: 1969, the same year as the Transamerica Pyramid. The subtext of every San Francisco skyscraper is its acceptance or denial of earthquakes, and this one feels like it’s on the denial side. (This is also why it’s very hard to photograph from the street this shot is taken from one of the few vantage points that work.) The dark marble and glass emphasize the building’s mass, but they make it feel less stable, rather than more: to emphasize mass is to emphasize potential energy. You don’t see it until it’s on top of you, like that Mario monster which, I’m now told, is called a Thwomp. One, it’s part way up Nob Hill and doesn’t have great sightlines from far away. 555 California! (The tall one in the back.) This is a uniquely alarming building for a number of reasons. ![]()
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