2005-2007 18th Street: mega modern new architecture on Potrero Hill

This new work of architecture at 18th and Rhode Island Streets in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood will surely be showing up soon in better design Web sites and magazines. It's still under construction but is finally ready enough for its glamour shot. Potrero Hill has been sprouting a number of modern home designs over the past few years, but this one goes the extra mile, not only in its bold design but also its spanning of two city lots. Still, its residents will have to contend with the Muni #19 bus line, who's diesel groans up that hill at all hours.

The home looks like it'll actually be multi-family: it has 2 addresses on the north elevation, 2005 and 2007 18th Street (Google map), and another address on the Rhode Island side. A look at the Live Local satellite view shows that two homes were razed to make way for the new building:

Directly to the north of the lot, across 18th Street and in the foreground of the bottom picture, is a still-empty lot, which is the location of the occasional Potrero Walk-in Movies.

Check out more Potero Hill modernism here on Le Blog Exuberance:

• Modernist apartment building
• High Modernism at Carolina & 22nd Street
• 2130 24th Street: woody modernism looking good
• Cactus moderne: 618 Carolina Street
• 705 Utah Street: the street address that has no street
• The machine in the garden // the garden in the machine

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