San Francisco houses: SF real estate, USA

Bal House

San Francisco residences + housing – the best new SF real estate – information and images of interesting contemporary Californian houses + property developments, USA: new luxury San Francisco houses

San Francisco architecture news, California

San Francisco architecture news – San Jose’s 10-minute Neighborhood: developers create affordable housing for homeless ; the city’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, overtook the 853 feet-high Transamerica Pyramid, the title holder since 1972!

San Francisco architecture tours: SF walking guides

Nueva School Science and Environmental Center, Hillsborough, SF

San Francisco architecture walking tours – see classic buildings by architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Herzog & de Meuron, Snøhetta, Mario Botta, Foster + Partners and Daniel Libeskind – source Bay Area architecture guides by e-architect for Californian building walks – SF walking tour by architects

The Canyon tower building, San Francisco, California

The Canyon tower building

MVRDV’s residential complex The Canyon on San Francisco’s waterfront is complete. The 23-storey mixed-use building, MVRDV’s first completed project on the west coast of the United States, is part of a masterplan that creates the wholly new neighbourhood “Mission Rock” overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Google Bay View Complex in Mountain View

Google Complex in Mountain View

Google Complex in Mountain View, California building design by BIG + Heatherwick Studio – “This is an opportunity to not only create a new home for the world’s most innovative company, but also to make a vibrant piece of town at the same time as protecting and enhancing the local natural habitat.”

CAMPout House, Lake Tahoe, California

CAMPout House California

A San Francisco family asked Faulkner Architectsto help them expand CAMPout House an existing property near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees