Micah Springut

Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

We carved this. Proved it could be done.
And I’m going to keep posting it until someone commissions a new building that’s as grand.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

Thank you, veterans

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

It’s time to build!!! But also purposefully misalign all the windows.

[Tyler | Kenji Capital @KenjiCapital]

Another massive 49-story residential skyscraper is being proposed for San Francisco.

This one would rise 553 feet near the San Francisco Caltrain Station.

The project includes:

• 49 stories
• 553 feet tall
• 538 residential units
• 424 rental apartments
• 114 condominiums
• 41 affordable homes
• 7,000 SF of ground-floor retail
• Rooftop open space and resident amenities

The developer originally proposed a 47-story tower with 520 apartments. Now the plans are 49 stories, with a combination of apartments and for-sale condominiums.

The property is directly across from the Muni T Third Street light rail station and just one block from Caltrain.

Of course, these are still preliminary plans, and there's no construction timeline or estimated cost yet...

📍San Francisco

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

.@bchesky, thank you!! Let’s talk about what it would take to place world class sculpture and monuments all over SF parks.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Cool! Kudos to @bchesky. https://t.co/ffA4ZQcaYI

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@theo_nash Glad you like it. We made this @Monumental_Labs. Hoping you get some good shots of the other statues in the building.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@aussieflya No, same street

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

My work as an old rich person will be paying for buildings to bring back their cornices

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@markfrancisio Lots of stone (on the higher end buildings) but there’s way more pressed metal, wood, and cast metal to replace too.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@ExploresMr Where’s all the stone going? We’ll take it

[chris @chrisduffel]

TV binging...

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

In like 30 mins you can watch me and Dustin Yellin yuck it up about art and automation and probably roast normie art opinion in the process. https://t.co/huvDTsfD8c

[Every 📧 @every]

A machine can carve marble. What does the artist do next?

Artist Dustin Yellin and @Monumental_Labs founder @mspringut discuss human craft and making art that lasts at Thesis: 2027.

Watch free Nov. 5: https://t.co/kgP1ml4hzH

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

They’re melting down on Facebook over this because they think AI designed a scantily-clad Pericles with a nip slip. It’s literally just a replica of Pericles in the Tuileries (modeled by hand in Zbrush).

[Monumental Labs @Monumental_Labs]

Pericles on robot

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

The answer is obvious. It’s been 85 years since we’ve built a great neighborhood or city or admirable estate.

Fix the failures of the physical world. Commission great works. Build grand buildings. Rebuild architecture education and the craft ecosystem that were decimated by cynical economics-driven favor for minimalism.

Fund libraries, concert halls, museums, squares, and monuments. Make money on it if you wish with housing and retail and office that gets a return with better decoration and design.

Someone’s work here can endure for ages. You don’t even have to care about your name living forever if you simply care enough about future generations and the world they’ll inherit.

If that’s not enough, dear patrons, the parties you’ll join of the cultural elite will be way cooler than the tech parties.

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

A funny thing about the deluge of wealth about to hit SF is that SF tech has always been about arcane status and legibility games much more so than money, and as we're about to mint a whole generation of UHNWs: there's nothing to buy.

The nicest houses in SF top out at $30M. We do not have Malibu-style $100M+ mansion compounds, and we don't have NYC-style $20M+ ultra-luxury apartments. There are a few penthouses at the Avery and a few other buildings and that's it. A handful of $50M+ estates available in the South Bay, but there's nothing these people hate more than commuting to where the cool events are. Megayachts would be out of gauche and out-of-place in the Bay. To a large extent, the real estate that you would associate with the kind of wealth about to befall Anthropic employee #100 simply does not exist and will take years to build as a physical matter and much more than that as a regulatory matter.

The consequence of this is that the arcane status and legibility games will come to matter much more than ever before -- if there's so much wealth that you can't really differentiate yourself on wealth, then everything ends up coming down to social proof games. Ah you have money? But does so-and-so follow you on Substack? And when you speak at Manifest, do people nod and say "wow what's your Twitter" or do they silently turn to get another Spindrift?

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@dsnein @growing_daniel You talking about me?

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@loganrobinson I’ve been busy restoring Carnegie Hall, The Frick, and The Villard Houses, you twat

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

I am going to regret wading into this, but if you're going to do guerrilla restoration, do it right.

The gold, the high gloss. Wrong and jarring.

We need higher standards and a more educated eye if we hope to preserve and build beautiful things.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This guy just restored the fire box in front of NY City Hall after years of neglect and filth

Leftists in his replies are literally crying

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@Citizen_Tycoon @growing_daniel https://t.co/C24Vk1KjYW

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@loganrobinson I’ve been busy restoring Carnegie Hall, The Frick, and The Villard Houses, you twat

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@CJtheTankEngine @growing_daniel lol

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@loganrobinson I’ve been busy restoring Carnegie Hall, The Frick, and The Villard Houses, you twat

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@growing_daniel You’re entitled to your opinion but I am more offended by the tacky and sloppy job (no research, no attempt to match tone and texture) than the natural decay.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@N0tThatSimple You’re right, your boy needs a participation trophy

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

@AnonAtLaw He’s a grown man taking on public project, not a toddler learning how to take off their shoes