John King presents Cityscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings (Heyday, $14.95), a new way to explore the City by the Bay.
John King, the San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, looks at 50 buildings that represent a distinct slice of San Francisco. In sparkling prose and with full-color photography, this book is part history, part guidebook, and part architectural primer.
Here are buildings defined by bold visual moves and offering tactile delight: structures you notice every time you pass by, and ones that escape your notice until the right light hits them a certain way. Included are some of the city's most familiar buildings and works by some of architecture's biggest names, but also plenty of structures that are often overlooked, even as they add to the unique texture of this fabled place.
