7 Architectural Preservation Projects in San Francisco
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The former Jessie Street Substation, with its elegant neoclassical design, took on a radically new dimension in 2008 with the completion of Daniel Liebeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, a lustrous blue cubic structure which transects the historic brick facade. These geometries and materials—stainless steel against traditional masonry—amplify the contrast between old and new. Photo by: Jeremy Blakeslee.
Original architect: Willis Polk (1905–1909)
Contemporary architect: Daniel Liebeskind (2008)