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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyone who accuses Pope Leo of being out of touch with Americans needs to see this photo of him at the grill in front of an above ground pool he turned 71 this past week: www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/my-mother-...)

Pope Leo grilling a steak in a suburban backyard in the USA

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gophers ate the roots of my fig tree so I'm trying to make the best of it

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

These are all from the new LACMA by Peter Zumthor

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's very LA that you get to the end of a very long procession through the building and you are looking out at the side courtyard of a stucco apartment building next door #architecture

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Amazing used book purchase today that the architects will appreciate

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There is also this monster 450 unit affordable project on De Haro and 16th that is concrete but I think it is going to be one floor too tall for a podium building

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And this one on Stanyan is also concrete (both of these were just completed, both are affordable)

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This one in the Outer Sunset at 2550 Irving is all concrete in SF

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I guess it really was cheaper back when I moved here in 1890 www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

Chart showing asking rents in San Francisco since 1809, through 200. Rents have outpaced the rest of the country since 1950.

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I saw these installed recently and they take up sooooo much space

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This is just how windows starts now

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Planting California pipevine (Aristolochia californica) finally paid off! #gardening #CANativePlants #nativeplants

Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on a plant

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This guy is not going to be in the AD100 any time soon he just needs lights in his gym

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Highlight of a site visit yesterday

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

These seem like reasonable demands TBH

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you let the bike industry keep selling you larger and larger wheels this is where you'll end up

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Looks great. I made this one earlier this week:

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

FYI it's tangelo season, don't miss it

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The tower crane is going up at the construction site by my office

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How fast is the WP assuming people are driving to Tahoe

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I took this photo at the supermarket in late February of 2020, someone prepping for COVID I assume...

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Do a lot of people have jobs where you are endlessly responding to emails that don't require any detailed knowledge or analysis? How are these AI agents replying to all of your emails? I don't get it

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

who would put these pots in the road and hang the streamers

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"we have AI making the clickbait now" The clickbait:

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I need to hide this at the bookshop before some impressionable kid picks it up

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is the detail we need to use in San Francisco projects

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Plopping in a shipping container next to Anchor Brewing

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Every single outdoor advertisement in San Francisco is some version of this

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The SF Chronicle prints the paper so far ahead of time they had to print a second cover page

Two separate cover pages of the San Francisco Chronicle

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

They are still making these Parcourse exercise areas

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Incredible to think that that someone would require AI to imagine what they would look like in THIS outfit specifically

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This SF Muni puzzle is extremely hard

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Marketing idea for my landscape architect friends

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

And then a more recent work (not so new anymore though), the Art Gallery of Ontario renovation which I really love

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I can't believe I've never read The Poetics of Space

Cover of the poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Is there a real estate bubble and is it likely to burst? Not in NYC, San Francisco (or London, Hong Kong and Paris) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/r...

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

While I do not actually need an heirloom quality shovel like this I do think the website is fun to look at share.google/98dxQRpto2Rb...

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I love the story of Captain Perk, a Great Lakes freighter captain who put potted trees on the deck of his ship to attract migrating birds. naturewerks.com/migration?fb...

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

These people missed some key lessons from the Bible

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

"that weed plant really looks like a carrot" and then

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The whole house is going to be stairways

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