The beautiful cube: modern architecture in the slot, south of Market Street

San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood has been going through an interesting transformation in recent years. I suppose you could simply call it gentrification: flop houses and factories make way for architect's and realtor's and web designer's loft conversion offices. But that's a silly word for the process of urban evolution, especially here in this very young city (with barely 160 years under its belt).

The rapidly evolving San Francisco economy has made south of Market a place of amazing built diversity, where new construction sits side by side with decrepit century-old buildings. Meanwhile, up in the north-east corner of the area, the Financial District's glass skyscrapers have been marching confidently into SoMa as downtown, once confined to north of Market, grows southward. Riding my bike and walking through the neighborhood, I'm often pleasantly surprised to find a new-ish and interesting building filling a slot in the urban grid.

Here's one I shot at Tehama and Gallagher, by Jim Jennings Architecture.

Bored? Looking to kill time? See my earlier posts about SoMa modernism:

• A perfect copper box: South of Market modernism
• Young San Francisco

And modern architecture elsewhere in San Francisco:

• The Copper Building ~ killer modernism
• Potrero Hill, Volkswagen, and Modernist Housing
• Modern Architecture around Buena Vista Park
• Valencia Gardens cultivated: modernism in public housing
• The only good Victorian is a gutted and modernized Victorian

And my Flickr photo set:

• san francisco // living city

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