I appreciate that when the garage was moved from below-grade to above-grade, and the Dainty Dot facade went into the dumpsters, that the opportunity to have this building enliven this intersection/entrance to Chinatown was largely lost. Townsman may be a great restaurant / a dining destination but the menu, as I read it, is New England brasserie. That simply reinforces the notion of the Radian being separate from Chinatown.
Here is a Curbed article on tweaking a building design in San Francisco to provide cultural context.
http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2014/...n_tweaks_respond_to_cultural_context.php#more
Also note use of photo murals to avoid a blank 'wall of death'.
Maybe if the Radian was a bit more Asian in appearance, the interest of overseas Chinese in having a residence there would be greater. Why exactly was the original Chinese architect shown the door?