'When I was looking for an apartment, I saw the facade and immediately called my real-estate agent,' says Mark Chila, a resident of 616 20th Street in San Francisco. 'I was lucky: the condominiums were almost sold out.' In designing the south elevation of a 16-unit housing block in the Central Waterfront area near Pier 70, architect Stanley Saitowitz created vertical fins of fiber-cement and glass panels as a brise-soleil to shield the interiors from glare. But the knife-pleat array also gives the trim five-story building an arresting visage'a reinterpretation of the historic bay window'in the polyglot area known as Dogpatch.
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