Short Takes: San Francisco Moment: I’m Dying to be an Artist….
by Mark English, AIA | Short Takes
Today I accompanied some Real Estate friends to look at a building for a prospective client, to get a sense of the “lay of the land”.
Sometimes a tombstone is just a tombstone, except when it's not.
Today I accompanied some Real Estate friends to look at a building for a prospective client, to get a sense of the “lay of the land”. I do this quite often, as an architect’s eye and knowledge often help a buyer make a more educated choice when putting together an offer.
The building is a grand old lady from 1916 with tattered sheet-metal facade details and peeling painted brick, but with beautiful proportions and possibilities. The units were predictably shabby, but offered the glimmer of resurrection.
The agent said that there was something that we had to see in the backyard……
Now there’s something you don’t see every day! So many ways to interpret this.
