Hung on Tong Society Headquarters Building

San Francisco, California

This will be a fantastic building if it ever gets built. Design development in close association with the SF Planning Department resulted in a cavity brick building over a steel frame, with stamped copper bay windows in a locally inspired idiom. Those Planning changes forced up the price to the point where the client, a Chinatown philanthropic society, couldn't afford to complete the project as of 1995.

A sign with the rendering still hangs over the site at the corner of Jackson and Kearny Streets.

Paul Dent: project architect (design through construction documents)
Theodore Brown, principal-in-charge
Theodore Brown & Partners, architect of record
Clayton Perry, rendering
Project, 1995

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