Another city to love!! So does SF stand for SanFrancisco or SalesForce?

It was a beautiful afternoon in the bay area. One of my colleague at work planned an architectural tour of San Francisco. I have been to a similar one in Chicago and wondered how well thought the city was beautifully constructed. These architectural tours usually leave anyone to deeply think about the stories of the day (century or few decades from today) that lead to the construction of the then skyscrapers.  We began our tour at the very historic Galleria Park Hotel at around 2.15PM when our group begins to fill the lobby. Our guide for the day was the best architectural historian I've met, i.e., Rick Evans. So, let me begin with this part and expand into what we've seen during the tour.  Most of us walk around the downtown just gazing at the beautiful structures around us but would have never noticed the public spaces. Yes, Rick calls them PoPOS (privately owned Public Open Spaces). There's a very interesting story behind it, use the link to explore them and make sure you visit them when you're are around in the downtown area. I'm short of words to explain the concept behind the air rights, so please use the story of a former participant of this walking tour to understand how the old buildings in the downtown area sold the air rights to help their neighbors build high-rises. As we began looking at the old and lovely buildings around us, we walk to the roof top of Galleria Park hotel to get a view of the Hallidie building to understand the surprising story behind it's current tenant and it's actual owner who let Polk design an intriguing style of constructing the building with the glasses as the face and columns behind the glasses. For someone like me I didn't even understand why would it make difference if the glass stood first or the concrete column. But, it seems to be an interesting idea per architectural design. Then we proceed to roof garden from the galleria park mall to get a grand view of the Hobart Building, Well Fargo Bank (formerly the Crocker-Citizens National Bank also know as the gateway to the Wall Street of the West). Next stop was the gigantic Sales Force Tower built recently in San Francisco, this is where the blog title comes from. There's an incredible structure next to the tall tower that started tilting due to the recent construction activity and to everyone's surprise the million dollar property started losing it's value due to the hollowness that started to develop due to the drilling activity for the Sales Force tower and beautiful transit tower. Few pictures illustrating the tilt of the tower I'm referring to (you can notice Rick Evans in one of the picture)