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Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the Bay Area. [1] It is a circular Art Deco building built by Finnish-American architect Alfred Finnila and overlooks the bay. [2] In 2021, a local coffee company, Equator Coffees, leased the site.
Buildings and structures in the San Francisco Bay Area (22 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
First Bay Tradition (also known as First Bay Area Tradition or San Francisco Bay Region Tradition [1]) was an architectural style from the period of the 1880s to early 1920s. Sometimes considered as a regional interpretation of the Eastern Shingle Style , it came as a reaction to the classicism of Beaux-Arts architecture .
On August 2, 2011, The Folger Building was purchased by the University of San Francisco, for almost $37 million. [3] This marked the return of the university's downtown roots. [ 4 ] It has no LEED certification, as is typical of buildings from its time, and has 83,500 square feet of rentable office space.
The architecture of San Francisco is not so much known for defining a particular architectural style; rather, with its interesting and challenging variations in geography and topology and tumultuous history, San Francisco is known worldwide for its particularly eclectic mix of Victorian [1] and modern architecture. [2]
Pages in category "Architects from San Francisco" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Irish coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe. The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952. [1] The Buena Vista Café originally opened in 1916 when the first floor of a boardinghouse was converted into a saloon. [2] The current owners also operate the Trident in Sausalito. [3]
The Third Bay Tradition is an architectural style from the period of 1945 through the 1980s that was rooted in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, with its best known example being Sea Ranch. Considered a hybrid of modern and vernacular styles, [ 1 ] the tradition was codified by the design works of Donlyn Lyndon , Charles Moore , Marcel ...