International Hotel & St. Mary's Catholic Center

 

848 Kearny Street, at the corner of Kearny and Jackson Street in San Francisco, marks a site rich with historical precedence with the controversial eviction and demolition of the International Hotel.  Twenty-three years after this event, the Chinese Community Housing Corporation and the Archdiocese of San Francisco are partnering to restore the past and to serve the community with a design scheme of senior housing, an elementary school, and a garage, a project realized as “the International Hotel and St. Mary’s Catholic Center.”

 

Old St. Mary's School	Historic Grounds Remembered “The International Hotel symbolized the [Filipino] community, and the eviction symbolized its death.”  Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Examiner 8/4/97.	Articles Related to this Project      “Committee to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the International Hotel and Manilatown.”  Bulletin.  July 1997.      Franson, Paul.  “New Housing To Be Finally Built on Old I-Hotel Site.”  North Beach Now.  February 1997.      Johnson, Clarence.  “Hotel:  Complex Approved.”  San Francisco Chronicle.  Date Unknown.      Lat, Emelyn and Anastasia Hendrix.  “International Hotel to be Reborn 2 Decades After Raid.”  The Examiner.  August 1997.      Louie, Eric. “Two Generations Share Memories of the I-Hotel.”  Philippines News.  June 1999.      Pimental, Benjamin.  “Resurrection of I-Hotel Site.”  San Francisco Chronicle.  August 1997.      Polledri, Paolo.  “The I-Hotel Site Represents an Architectural Opportunity.”  Date Unknown.
Old International Hotel	A Collaborative Endeavor for a New Generation site development client groups project team Collaboration between client groups and the design team gives rise to a project that will finally fill the site vacant for almost 25 years.
	A Physical Emergence to Mend the Past cultural & community site analysis design elements & user groups With community input, site and use analyses, GHCP + team create a responsive design for the new I-Hotel and St. Mary’s Catholic Center.	Credits Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley – Humberto Cavalier and Mike Martin Gordon H. Chong and Partners - Todd Bloch, Charles Higueras, Sam Nunes, and Brian Shiles Herman and Coliver Architects - Bob Herman The film “The Fall of the I-Hotel” - Curtis Choy An Examination of Low-cost Housing in Two SF communities –Chinatown and International Hotel by Warren Chin et. al. The International Hotel:  One Community’s Fight for Survival by Teri Lee. RJW Consulting - Robert J Williams
	University of California, Berkeley Arch 229G: Building Stories Fall 2000 International Hotel & St. Mary's Catholic Center Case Study Group:                   Tanya Chiranakhon      Esther Tse      Hilary Robie