if arthur brown didn't want the skylights he wouldn't have put them there. i think it's disingenuous to say we we should have shoot metal because he didn't want skylights because it was something he motive have intended. when i look like those buildings that are adjacent it's apparent there's skylights and a small curb would be less of a change than changing it to melt. i'm not saying i'm not going to vote for it i will but i believe the prop arguments are different. the curb is different but you'll definitely see it from different buildings the isolates it's a big change. the argument i find sometimes to be a little bit they're not the arguments that are the real arguments for this change >> thank you. commissioner johns >> moving to a little bit different that's the last speaker this has come up occasionally. this is his comments about correcting those points of history about the safekeeping center. i would like us to seriously do something to address that >> thank you sxhvld. >> my preference is the skylights. i think they're important for the building. h

when arthur brown completed the designs in 1932 the court yard was never completed because of guess what, budget adversaries (laughter) so it's good to know we're not alone in our contemporary conditions. but i was able to get ahold of the original plans and they showed those like wedding cakes had had or that are different so i replaced those with the cubes and i was able to in that way like the court yard itself really complete the historical nature of the building and bring it into its contemporary use. as part of this visual vocabulary those fountains and benches you seeing see rising and twisting from the ground are digitally cast into concrete. the concrete is an 80 percent recycled material which is in con formulations with the plat form of qualifications of the architecture by hk s. the decomposed granite allows water to pass through. sculpture is meant to be skrurlt it is also accommodating the lives of people who are going to work in this facility and use it. i think this this sense it's what the art and architecture program intended for its platform for architecture. john dewe

arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he

grass on sunset you boulevard it turns out brown and kachdz garage so maybe we can cut that and manage it better. that's agenda for another day but having arthur a little bit of extra water helps >> please call the question. >> on the matter of the consideration of dalmatian of the finding there was a motion and acceptance to prove in the confrontational zone permit authorization. >> commissioner antonini. >> commissioner borden. >> commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and lt. governor guadagno. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes announcements 6 to zero >> commissioners item 17 csa was continued and will place you on that 18 abc at is 15 hundred request for a condition. >> excuse me. should we tack - take a 5 minute break. less than 5 minutes. >> okay welcome to san francisco planning commission regular meeting. we're in the process of calling items 18 abc. at the 1500 page street request for conditional use authorization >> good afternoon. i'm with the department staff. as the project team has a presentation i'll obey belief. the item before you is a hifkd resource to create one hundred percent of housing proj

grass on sunset you boulevard it turns out brown and kachdz garage so maybe we can cut that and manage it better. that's agenda for another day but having arthur a little bit of extra water helps >> please call the question. >> on the matter of the consideration of dalmatian of the finding there was a motion and acceptance to prove in the confrontational zone permit authorization. >> commissioner antonini. >> commissioner

artists like arthur alexander and the rock 'n' roll favorites, of course, chuck berry, carl par kins but there unusual performances of songs that you never heard on the bbc at the time. >> brownr it involves some real detective work. this is kind of amazing but the bbc did not keep a good archive of these sessions. >> yeah, i first investigated this material way back at the end of 1981. and you could discover all the paperwork relating to the beatles radio programs, what songs they covered. but finding the tapes, that was another matter. there was just one out of 53 musical performances in the bbc archives. so i had to track them down from various sources and over the years, 30 odd years i've been doing that. and trying to restore the beatles bbc archive. and we're getting there. there are a few still missing. but we're very lucky to have this wonderful legacy now. >> kevin howlet is the coproducer of on air live at the bbc volume -- and author of the companion book the beatles, the bbc archives. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> see >> sreenivasan: see behind-the- scenes photos from the era when the beatles were just about to take america and the world by storm. those are on