Story: Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco FINALLY Opens!

For years, the only sign that this facility was destined to be more than just abandoned, was a flimsy yellow and red banner declaring "Future Home of the Contemporary Jewish Museum." But then museum officials totally got it together, hired über architect Daniel Libeskind, whose amazing curriculum vitae includes the master design for the rebuild of the World Trade Center, and officially opened in June. Now it's a sight you couldn't possibly miss.

Originally a power substation for the city, the building was constructed as a basic brick rectangle in 1881. Architect Willis Polk then got his hands on it after the 1906 earthquake and added flourishes in the Classical Revival style. Creaming the crop though, Libeskind next worked his magic on the building, and completely rehabilitated and pimped the inside and outside, most notably, with the addition of a gigantic blue-black glimmering steel cube that emerges from the rooftop.

Libeskind prefers to call it "blue steel."

Inside, the exhibition space is rather small, but hip, with the same diamond grid that characterizes the steel cube, characterizing the interior walls. Meanwhile, the substations original tresses, cranes, and catwalks remain in tact.

This is definitely something to see for gentiles and non-gentiles alike.