The latest renderings of San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art expansion show firm Snøhetta adding a 10-story concrete tower behind the original museum. The addition will add about 130,000 square feet in new exhibition space. By adding terraces, indoor/outdoor galleries, and admissions-free zones, the museum will be open to the street and allow for more art-filled public space. The expansion is scheduled to be completed in 2016.

In other news, Kickstarter's new app has an Instagram feel, and floating schools are built in flood-prone Nigeria. See the headlines after the jump.

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Shopping at architectural salvage stores will not only save you money on a renovation, it also helps keep perfectly good household items out of landfills. If you're not interested in rebuilding with secondhand goods, you can also donate yours.  More

If you have the post-Valentine's Day blues (love hangover, maybe?) let the sales and events of President's Day Weekend distract you. It's a proven fact: retail therapy breaks a bad mood every time. Check out all the sales and events in the Weekend Guide, pass it on and be sure to send us your own sale or event for future editions of the Guide. More

Name: Molly Turner
Location: Duboce Triangle, San Francisco, California
Size: 900 square feet
Years lived in: 7 months; Rented

When Molly Turner moved to San Francisco, she wanted a location that felt like a village, and had great public transit, with fantastic dining and shopping all within walking distance. It was easy for Molly to know what she wanted in a neighborhood since she's an urban planner.

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More comfortable than a regular chair, that's for sure.

• Weehawken, NJ: Retro Daybed - 795
• San Francisco, CA: Antique Chaise - $250
• Los Angeles, CA: Vintage Floral Chaise - $350
• Venice, CA: Mid Century Chaise - $600
• Brooklyn, NY: White Tufted Chaise - $500
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This weekend is your last chance to pick up something for your sweetie for Valentine's Day. Fortunately, we're here to help you save some dough while doing so. This edition of the Weekend Guide is full of warehouse sales, pop up shops and other special savings events. Check it all out in the Weekend Guide, pass it on and be sure to send us your own sale or event for future editions of the Guide. More

It's easy to walk into a rental and see only the bad parts — poor lighting, bad flooring, old paint, etc. Forced to move, Victoria of SF Girl by Bay has made the best out of what initially seemed like a less than ideal new home. More

Laaaaaiiiiid back.

• Occidental, CA: Leather Chair- $360
• San Francisco, CA: Woven Chair - $250
• Chicago IL: Mies Van der Rohe Chairs - $475
• Tarrytown, NY: Magazine Rack - $110
• Baton Rouge, LA: Anthropologie Lounge Chair - $80
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CA Home+Design offers a glimpse inside the digs of online publication, The Bold Italic, a site focusing on stories, personalities, and events revolving around the city by the bay. As eclectic as the site's content, so goes the interior decor of The Bold Italic's office/events space, mixing and matching design classics with salvaged scrap industrial elements, with plenty of multifunctional pieces, strewn throughout. All this was conceived by SF designer, Kelly Malone, amusingly described as "Martha Stewart meets Alice Cooper"... More

My boyfriend and I recently embarked on a search for an apartment in the now infamous rental market in San Francisco, attending open houses that feel like cattle calls, where prospective tenants line up with their binders full of personal information and checks made out for steep application fees… just to be considered. More