The Architect · Nora · San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts
I've watched architects from out of town dismiss this as pastiche. They're wrong. The ruin aesthetic Maybeck deployed here was genuinely avant-garde for 1915.
Bernard Maybeck's 1915 ruin that became permanent. The colonnades are pure theater and I mean that as praise.
— Nora, The Architect
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