Yesterday was World Diabetes Day, so San Francisco City Hall was lit in blue, (or purple, or lavender, or whatever) last night.
INVISABUL BUS and the evening star. Click to expand:
Read all about it at the Diabetes Mine.
Now back in the day, it was easy to see construction workers on the job. All you had to do was look up through the I-beams and see them walking around. Those were the days, see?
But these days, due to changing construction techniques using concrete, rebar, and whatnot, you need to get above the workers to see them at labor. These folks are mostly out of view after the first floor gets done. Here, they work on the third floor.
Pretty soon, you wont see the cars of UC Hastings Law School students and staff clogging up the parking spaces of Civic Center and Little Saigon thanks to this new mixed-use building that’s still going up.
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The other problem with seeing these people at work is that these jobs are drying up lately.
Good-bye construction workers of San Francisco. See you again in a year or two?
In the left corner we have One Rincon Hill, South Tower, standing 641 feet tall. Compare that with the “New Sheriff’s Facility” jail (the “glamour slammer“) on the right.
Which building is better?
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“I–my idea, when we started out was to have a, you know, rising up, in the form of an undulating, ovulating ground that you don’t get so much nowadays.”
