building and it's sheet metal. >> and made to look like break. >> the letters are made of sheet metal and the eave over the door and every piece of this thing. the glass is i guess not. the door is sheet metal. the door jam. fantastic. >> maybe they got a special price for the sheet metal. >> and here's a permit to put it on the building and cost $700 to put the minor editions to the front of the building and a new cement floor 1921. >> do you think they put the correct amount down back then? >>im sure of it. >> one of the fewer buildings in san francisco. >> which is not wrong for the city. >>i understand someone wants to

replace it with new development i heard stories about these buildings and these are two others and there is in the mission at 20th and shot well and ares that were used when they were dwfing the cancer drug laitral and duplicated it there. >> wait -- that they acquired it from the military -- >> it was moved on to the site but in the permit when it says who designed it -- you will like this too. it's not the owner's son here. it says prefabricated steel building plans drawn in the east. the creek bridge and it's a lift bridge and recently refurbished and reopened two years ago.

>> and renamed. >> what's the new name? >> nishkin. >> really and also a structural engineer. >> yes. >> this was opened in the 50's and replace a bridge from 1915 and apparently inside a art decko and the rack and the pinion gear that operates the bridge. >> it's a draw bridge. >> and double leaf bridge. >> the old oriental house. >> and this survived the earthquake. >> and the fire. >> and the fire as well. it was made a landmark in 97 and damaged in the 89 earthquake and

in an attempt to fix it or replace it and we have a building inside and some ways the new building structure is supporting the masonry of the old warehouse and you can see it and it's fantastic how it's done and called facadism and in our world and just save the outside but it's better to save that than nothing i think, and here is the little sign on it and the oriental warehouse and all of that remains of the pacific steamship company. designate thdesignated alandmark in 1997 y street. >> a lot of the buildings were landmarked of the 200 year anniversary of the u.s. and 1976

we started landmarking buildings and what i think set it off was the demolition of the fox theater and people got up in arms and no more of the demolition and celebrating 200 years of the country and 200 years from now we want some left. >> there was a historic survey done i believe in 76 by the planning department. is that accurate? >> junior league. >> the survey was done by the planning department. that's right. we have some planners here and by planners and interns and planning stuff and we have the complete record and including the photographs from that survey here. the next one is destined it's a classic structure in san francisco and the coke bottle at pac bell and

pat you were involved with that and the responsible party? >> i am the responsible party for this thing, yes. i spent three months designe designing it's made out of hundred thousand pounds of alaskan cedar. and finally we're going to get a nam plague with our nan it and it can hold 100,000-gallons of coke and they were curious how much you could put in there and all made of alaskan cedar and fabricated in petaluma and one of the amazing things is every time one hits a home run the tv camera pans over

and subliminally "home run coke" the best advertisement i have seen. >> and this is another building and two identical side by side. >> designed by the u.s. m marine corp. >> and this was base isolated in the year 2000 and that means they basically cut the building off underneath and put in these big separators with a rubber plate that allows the building to slide back and fourth so the building is intended to function after a earthquake and high level of functioning. >> it's a server building and generators on the top and they promise it will survive any

earthquake and fine afterwards. are you going to show them the joints around the building? >> this is one. you can see next to the building in this shot and piece of walk way and that's a sacrificial slab and as the building moves will slip up and the building it can that distance of 4 feet and look around the side and you see this and that is where the building is isolated from the foundation and we have a question? >> in an earthquake the building will stay where it is and the author will move back and 40. >> i'm sorry if i restated that. >> actually earthquake causes and the isolaters allowe allow o that. >> and city hall and the library

are base isolated. they're not keep to do but you're able to shift the period of the building out of a range if the building doesn't see the earthquake because the earthquake is moving underneath the building and the building is staying put and it's a particular good idea for museums where you have statures and you don't want them falling over so you base isolate the building. >> and to the issue of how do we want our buildings to perform in san francisco? and i want my building to be repairable and usable and fully occupiable after the expected earthquake and you might with no interpretatiointerruption and om willing to 2 $20 million.

>> and there is the building behind and used by the u.s. marine corp and sure wall building and this is base isolated and i would speculate the difference in the cost is -- but i mean if you're puttin -- and this is what an interesting point is the building might be worth 50 mil u have all that high-tech communication inside or if the telecommunication goes down for one hour you lose a billion dollars and some of these buildings get to the super high levels or they require double and triple redundancy. >> question in the back. >> base isolated to what intensity earthquake? >> we design for the maximum - well, the code looks at design

base earthquake which is 500 year event and that is 1906 and the code looks at the maximum credible earthquake and which is a thousand year and looking at these people and what they did and i suspect they did to maximum credible which is 40 percent higher than the base or 1906. >> yeah hold on a second. lou we have harvey here. >> i have a question. i do understand what you just said there are two similar buildings and one is base isolated and one wasn't? >> yeah back to back. >> so we get to compare their performance. that will be a wonderful -- >> they're both designed by the u.s. marine corp. i actually have plans for one of the buildings. not the one that i

worked on. i got the other plans and when i found out i had the wrong plans i gave them to the owner of the other building and similar and built for world war ii and one of the fascinating things instead of stairs in the buildings they have spiral slides so in an emergency you didn't run down the stairs and told the guy to hop in the slide and out the building and that was their emergency e aggress. >> and they're designed if there an explosion it doesn't blow the walls out. and one of my favorite is the old pump station and now used as the headquarters of the fire department and one thing that makes this -- dare i say odd building and has live

tidal sea water from the cove. >> the bu bay used to be right about there. >> the bay was about a couple hundred yards away -- maybe 800-yards away and so there is now an under ground i have duct that -- via duct that brings this here and can take water from the bay and into the high pressure system for most earthquake or fire protection. >> if they ran out of regular domestic water. >> or if the pipes broke and that happened in 1906 and might happen. a couple of other things that make this building interesting and turning it into

the firefighter headquarters and they have complicated occupancies and i look at these things and hard to have fuel storage next to the big assembly but they did that. they have fuel storage and parking and right above that the assembly room and lunch room and offices and medical suite. they have visitors and visitors guess rooms and it's the most complicated building of interlocking uses of i have ever seen and if you can get in. >> it's open to the public. >> or you can see one of the old fire horse drawn wagons in the lobby. >> and what the marina degowsing station. this is scheduled --

well okay what is it? this is a building -- we will go to this. it's a magnetic silencing device and cable in the buy and ships could line over it and see what kind of signals they are sending out and used in especially world war ii it hasn't been used in a long time and intended to be restored as the harbor's master master oe and it's on the marina green and it has this thing on the top and do you notice this and the second town building did and the bigger ones were called monsters. isn't that right? and they call it a monitor and hampon roads and chesapeake bay

in the civil war and a lot of these had monitors to let in light and sky light and the old marina station and i can tell you about this building and the side of telegraph hill and built by mr. gonya and a friend of ours and great uncle and personal residence out of concrete and this is an opening dome in the living room and large room ceiling. >> transamerica building. >> definitely unusual. cost $19 million to build this and 853 feet tall. 48 stories. >> and it's on the bay mud and did something novel and cut out equal amount of dirt to equal the weight of the building and

dug it out to equal the amount. >> so it won't settle. >> and no piles. >> this is a landmark, an icon of san francisco and replace the anothereplacedanother landmark e building and survived the earthquake and to be torn down in the 40's or 50's. >> this is a picture of the original mint in the western united states. when in 1852 san francisco was charted to have its own mint. the temporary quarters were in this building and cost $93,000. this building is a landmark -- california historic landmark and built the new building around it. >> on top of it too.

>> and this on commercial street below kearney and it's a museum of pacific history or something like that and it is temporary -- it was temporary until the mint was built at fifth and mission street and people say is now the old mint but this is in fact the old mint and this is what pat -- this is just up the street. a little unusual house i saw on commercial street. that's all we see right now of the belli building. i couldn't be get behind it. this an old brick building that in some ways survived the 06 quake. >> a lot of the buildings did and i have a client that still owner its. right around the corner there are two buildings

there and this area did survive the earthquake and the fire. >> one of the things that is most unusual about this and built on a raft of redwood logs. >> one this way, one this way and one this way and it floated on the bay. >> and they're doing a major renovation now and involves house nothing the building so i am sure they will put a real foundation. >> it worked for 150 years. >> originally built as a tobacco warehouse and of course the famous -- and then it was a meloggian and crab trees and one of the great entertainers in san francisco. i couldn't talk about unusual buildings without talking about chinatown and it's one of the reasons that people come to san francisco and see a representation of a whole different way of living and many

are brick buildings but have sheet metal. a lot of this stuff is made out of pressed sheet met willa. what is special about this building? it's a big building and owned by the city, the school district. >> it wasn't built there. >> it was badly dai drjed in the loma earthquake. >> it's the old commerce high school and built somewhere else and they pick today up and moved it to this current location. >> gigantic building. basically temporary railroad tracks and rolled it across the plaza. >> and with brick veneer and clay and tile entire walls. >> they say this is the first

hindu temple in the united states -- in fact in the whole western world. the first temple for america and originally a two story building and we have a permit from 1,907 to add the third story and the third story turned it into this temple and each of these has deep significance in the hundredue culture and religion. one of the things that is amazing all of the different architectural styles and pieced together and the different things and the queen anne and colonial and all different styles pushed together. this is webster at filbert street in the marina. around san francisco odd buildings abound and this thing is in somebody's backyard and all over we see the incremental

development and they have a porch and rail and walls up and here we have in somebody's backyard a fence that has become a wall and now fully occupied. >> it's a green house. >> and next year living quarters and pretty soon a manufacturing facility. lam bar lombard strd this building has contentious past and the owners want to lift it up and put a story underneath and the reason they want to lift it up throughout the city street elevations have been adjusted and as the streets get improved and the city heights don't get adjusted and many driveways go down into the garage. >> or windows below the street that makes no sense.

>> and the streets of elevated and graded and of course the building settles but not that must have and the original flow of the thi-- floor of the build. >> i of in the building. >> me too. >> you are looking at the second floor now. >> the first floor. i live in the sunset and my kids pointed this out to me as the ninja house and orteega street and built in 1953 at the top of a cliff. isn't that wonderful? $11,000 for mr. r hess so people have said we have a lot of narrow buildings. i went out history and measured this building. it's 9 feet ten and a half inches wide. >> the lot is a little more.

there is an inch and a half on both sides. >> this is a real landmark. >> there is the dog. >> there is the required dog and the reason this is in there it has a green roof. this is a little shed that somebody built it's under the 100 square feet requirement and below no permit is required and they built this artist studio with a green roof isn't that odd? gorgeous studio an. >> these are earthquake refugee shacks and they replaced the tent cities put up in parks and house the ten's of thousand's of refugees and wurn winter was approaching and decided they decided a more permanent way to house these people and they

built these cottages in city parks and presidio park and of this amount there are 23, 24 that are certified to still be standing although we assume there are many more hidden in people's backyards or suburbs and that type of thing and when the camps closed people could take the shacks with them and start a new life and many were together to form larger residences of three or four shacks together and our organization is trying to stay four of them we have moved to the zoo and we trying to get one of them on display for next year. >> and these are at the presidio. >> yes and by the hospital and they were saved in the 80's by a lady jane crio and the presidio assures they will fix them. >> and they were trying to fix

them. >> and tin foil on the top. >> if you look under the 1930 san francisco building code they declared these buildings public nuances and condemned them and ordered to be demolished. >> and moved to western side of the city and sand dunes essentially and didn't have foundation and put on the grounds and the ones that we saved were condemned in the 70's but lasted until this year. can you read more at www. outside lands. org. >> outside lands -- >> (inaudible). >> and you're doing a great job for the city preserving these and other work that you do out there. some people say it's the ololdest building in san francio or the presidio officer's club. this is an adobe building built in the late 1700's and survived

the earthquake. >> second location of the mission and original was two blocks down. >> and this was 1790. >> when they realized they built the original mission in the best farming area and moved it and 18th street had a creek flowing down it and that's why they move toda moved away and ae street used to be the barracks for the workers and i will use that term loosely and they weren't happy to be there. >> unhappy workers. >> they didn't want to be part of the mission at that time. >> how thick are the walls? >> probably two to 3 feet thick. >> and performed well in the 1 1906 earthquake? >> it does. does did. i think t

to it didn't do well but this is so massive. >> another building and the sunny side conservatory and build in 1901 and fell into disrepair and people tried to demolish and got the permit and did a third of the building until the neighbors got up in arms. >> monterey boulevard. >> it's open to the public and you can take a walk up there and lou let's get woody on this. >> i want to point out the third that was demolished and three years after it was made a landmark. >> we issue a lot of permits. a landmark here, a landmark there and this is a building essentially rebuilt with neighborhood efforts so the city

isn't putting money into it. it's the city putting the energy and money and inside of this structure and these really interesting stresse stresses. >> >> holding it up. a modern landmark. this is an unusual building. we have -- we have a question here. >> i wanted to point out that the museum is base isolated and the tower is not. >> i didn't know that. >> the tower is for the people and the museum is for the art work. we got our priorities right. >> pardon me? >> what good is have base isolated if the building is negligencnextit going to fall. >> if you have a piece of art work that can't go down and when the ground underneath shakes the

staturstatues don't have a tendo go over. >> and why they built them. japanese garden gates and built before the midwinter fair and rebuilt in the last 20 years and people who came from kyoto and used the materials and traditional japanese trees and they're phenomenal and just like what you see in the temple gardens in kyoto. the pioneer log cabin and used for pevmen ps for the rec department in golden gate park and was recently restored and renovated. apparently they brought the