S.F. Shipyard

Long known as an artist enclave — reportedly the largest in the country, with more than 250 artists and makers working in on-site studios — the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of living with art. Helmed by FivePoint Holdings, the project’s numerous planned residential complexes are part of a 762-acre revitalization effort, stretching from Bayview-Hunters Point to the former site of Candlestick Park, which will eventually include 12,100 condos and townhouses (starting from the low $600,000s), 350 acres of parks and open space, and an Urban Innovation District. That district will span restored waterfront buildings and will include a STEM-focused education center, a Makers Lab for aspiring inventors and a new LEED Gold structure just for art studios. British architect David Adjaye is particularly well suited for this feat of urban planning, given his most recent triumph of design and art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Some of the same considerations apply to both projects. “How do you understand [the plan’s] intrinsic nature, which is the idea of the pastoral and the ordered landscape?” he once mused in an interview with Smithsonian magazine. Perhaps spending some time with one of the shipyard’s many public-art installations, “Frame-Refrain,” a Cor-Ten steel sculpture by Mildred Howard and Walter Hood, seen above left, would help with developing new perspectives on the evolving terrain — its metal disks are designed to provide just that. thesfshipyard.com