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John Doerr. On a clear day, Doerr can look down from his 35th-floor corner office in Embarcadero Center on the sailboats plying San Francisco Bay. Taking in the view may be the only truly restful thing that Doerr, 34, normally ever does. He has been a relentless overachiever since he joined the blue-chip San Francisco venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. Three years later Doerr became one of five general partners (there are seven today). Among the companies that he has spotted for investment are Cypress Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems and Businessland, all Silicon Valley...
...neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like such self-centered and gaudy projects as Renaissance Center in Detroit and Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. But surprisingly, Copley Place almost fits in. There seems enough of Boston's old civic mettle left to have forced a certain architectural civility upon the development...
...street level in commercial buildings. As Whyte's photos make clear, the worst offenders are convention centers, like the one in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, and the new megastructure office, hotel and shopping centers, such as the Bonaventure Hotel and Atlantic Richfield Plaza in Los Angeles, the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco and Omni International in Atlanta. Architecturally, these structures often have an awesome and arrogant beauty. Socially, they set themselves deliberately and offensively apart from the city around them...
Pieces like Nevelson's Celebration, a 30-ft.-high steel construction done for the PepsiCo headquarters at Purchase, N.Y., in 1976, or the 54-ft. Sky Tree, 1977, in San Francisco's Embarcadero Center, have an ornamental blandness that verges on the slick-the last word that could imaginably apply to her wooden walls and environments. One is left with the impression not of sculpture that confidently occupies its own scale but of inflated maquettes. Night Presence IV, 1972, which Nevelson offered as a personal gift to New York City-it stands at Park Avenue and 92nd Street...
...Francisco boasts a lot of awesome architecture: the towering headquarters of Transamerica Corp., which looks like an elongated pyramid; the severe, deep-carnelian granite Bank of America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...