This enormous warehouse on 3rd St. at 16th in San Francisco is being demolished. When I took these photos last week the siding had gone, leaving the windows suspended on the steel framework - seemingly floating against the blue sky. The grid of blues and grays is lovely! I'm sure it will all be gone in a few days.
I stumbled across this almost-demolished building while visiting some Open Studios yesterday. By tomorrow evening it will probably be gone. The layers of graffiti make the concete walls look like a tapestry, and the fragmented, colorful effect of the few remaining panes of glass hanging against the sky was lovely. One of my ambitions is to be an "artist in residence " on a demolition site, recording things revealed as layers are peeled away. Any demolition contractors reading this?
