In yesterday's Chronicle, reporter John King relayed the musings of Liesbeth van der Pohl, the chief government architect of the Netherlands, on certain sites in San Francisco. She liked the Painted Ladies. She liked the De Young. And she liked...Mission Bay!?!
"It's a very nice atmosphere, so neat and well-maintained," she told King after a walk in Mission Bay. "Some of the parts are absolutely beautiful."
Um, what? I might not be an expert on architecture, but I happen to live i