Stacks And Stacks

Like many other cities around the world, San Francisco’s port area is undergoing radical change, in both zoning and new construction. I have yet to see any reference to plans of how to use these large silos, but there is a precedent for radical and interesting interventions for end-of-life use of industrial architecture. San Francisco has both the talent and design culture to embrace this type of effort – why is there not more of it?