{"id":9563,"date":"2011-02-15T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2012-01-19T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T00:54:07","slug":"ucsf-mission-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/02\/15\/ucsf-mission-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"UCSF Mission Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An architectural nightmare.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The architecture of a university campus seems to bear little relationship to its academic excellence.  The raft of Nobel laureates in physiology and medicine at UCSF Mission Bay in south east San Francisco would appear to confirm that a welcoming environment and academic excellence are unrelated.  Visit this soulless campus and you would swear that, even at lunch hour, the place has been hit by a neutron bomb.  The public areas, such as they are, will be empty, the buildings remain standing.  The &#8216;quad&#8217;, if you can call it that, is dominated by two fifty foot slabs of steel plate covered with graffiti and rust &#8230;. see the third snap below.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not as if the near constant construction at this huge campus is improving things.  Whereas you can see some hint of originality in the brutality of London&#8217;s Barbican or the sheer silliness of Paris&#8217;s Pompideau Museum, their is neither wit, whimsy or originality in the structural steel passing for architecture at UCSF Mission Bay.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_00.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"482\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>UCSF, Mission Bay.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Try as I may to inject some wit and interest into snaps of this architecturally arid desert, I fear I am doomed to fail.  I don&#8217;t see myself revisiting this area any time soon unless, that is, I get a sudden hankering for a Nobel Prize in physiology, which is a long shot.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_01.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>What were they thinking of here?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_02.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The reflections say more than this building ever will.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_03.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Slabs of rusty steel &#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_04.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Little sign of life.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_05.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>A rare human being.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_06.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>No, I am not making this up.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_07.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Ugh!&#8221;, in a word.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_08.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>How desperate a place is this to take your child?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_09.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>This one must be the campus gaol.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/UCSF_10.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Deserted.  As usual.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All snapped over the past two years on the Panny G1 with the kit and 45-200mm MFT lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An architectural nightmare. The architecture of a university campus seems to bear little relationship to its academic excellence. The raft of Nobel laureates in physiology and medicine at UCSF Mission Bay in south east San Francisco would appear to confirm that a welcoming environment and academic excellence are unrelated. Visit this soulless campus and you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/02\/15\/ucsf-mission-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UCSF Mission Bay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15413,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/15413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}