Hot out of the Curbed SF inbox: Here are the new renderings for Christiani Johnson Architects' design of 1285 Sutter Street, the recently Planning Department-approved, future-home-to-Trader Joe's that we updated on earlier in the day. And deets, oh yes, we have the deets: Out of 106 units, 31 will have one bedroom; 75 units will feature two bedrooms. One bed room units will range in size from 720 to 850 square feet; 2 bedrooms, from 1070 to 1210 square feet. 106 spaces' worth of residential parking, 64 to retail/ other needs. 39 cyclists will have a place to lock up their bikes. Prices to come soon enough, we're sure— sell, buy, sell!
· Welcome, Trader Joe's: 1285 Sutter Street Approved [Curbed SF]
· Development Watch: 1285 Sutter Street [Curbed SF]
· Sutter Van Ness Announcement [website]
Back-to-back Libeskind action! So here they are, the plans for San Francisco's new Contemporary Jewish Museum designed by globetrotting architect Daniel Libeskind. Surprisingly reserved for Libeskind, but what the plans don't really communicate is the fact that there is only one single vertically straight wall in the entire building. Located in the first floor (lower image), this wall was DL's concession to the CJM staff. Almost everywhere else in the building, he's up to his usual spatially disorienting, curator-reviled trickery, albeit tempered in certain areas by the existing brick building. On the second floor, the larger main gallery highlights the intersection with the new building and the repurposed power station, and yes, while the walls are slightly askew, they're nothing like those in Libeskind's Berlin or Denver museums — buildings that make many less concessions.
· Curbed Inside Update: The Contemporary Jewish Museum Full Reveal [Curbed Inside}
· Curbed Inside: Contemporary Jewish Museum [Curbed SF]
· CurbedWire: Contemporary Jewish Museum Opening Revealed [Curbed SF]
77 Beaver Street, the floor plan anti-porn that launched a thousand snipes— and the most ambitious reader send-in to land in the Curbed Inbox in a good, long while: "Don't ask me why, but 77 Beaver Street's floor plan brought out the frustrated architect in me," says our Photoshop-strapped reader. Before we go to the polls, our designer's pitch:
1) The bump-out in the second bedroom is there primarily to eliminate the expense of moving the window. It would also be a nice area for a desk. 2) The relocated family room may be cozy in size, but placing it off the kitchen and away from the living room makes more sense to me. 3) The window in the relocated bathroom is a new floorplan problem, but at least the bathroom access issue is solved... and did you see the extra sink?
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