Hung on Tong Society Headquarters Building

San Francisco, California

This would have been a fantastic building if it were built. Design development in close association with the SF Planning Department resulted in a cavity brick building over a steel frame, with elaborately detailed stamped copper bay windows in a locally inspired idiom. These Planning mandates forced up the price to the point where the client, a Chinatown philanthropic society, couldn't afford to complete the project as of 1995. They later built a similar but less elaborate building. As you might expect, I prefer this one, even though the people in the rendering might be a bit undersized.

Here is a photo of what was eventually built.  I imagine this wound up being far more expensive than our design.

Hung On Tong as built

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

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