Four BART Yard Shops
This project provided seismic upgrades to 22 structures across 4 BART Yards and various small building locations. Structus, Inc. led a design team including Robin Chiang & Company and YEI Engineers. The central task...
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Jean Nouvel: Architecture, Space & Time
French Architect Jean Nouveau talks about place-making in relation to his projects that were inspired by Arab & Islamic Architecture. (10:45 min)
Around the Bay – Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region
I am writing to recommend a new book, Around The Bay, Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region, published by The Center for Land Use Interpretation. This armchair tour of the...
Islais Creek Motor Coach Maintenance & Operations Facility (Phase 1)
SFMTA Islais Creek Motor Coach Maintenance & Operations Facility is located on a ten acre site in southeast San Francisco at the corner of Cesar Chavez Street and Indiana Street with shoreline frontage along...
The Story of the 13 Prints of Bucky Fuller’s Inventions at SFMOMA
The walls of the first gallery of SFMOMA’s Department of Architecture and Design’s exhibition, Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, display 13 large prints, which compose the portfolio titled, “Inventions: Twelve Around...
San Francisco’s Central Subway: Part II – Underground Stations
The Union Square and Market Street Station (UMS) is located in a downtown area with abundant shopping and places to meet. As you can see in the section below, the platform will be deep...
San Francisco’s Central Subway and its Roots
As a native New Yorker I spent years riding the subway before moving to San Francisco. Although San Franciscans may assume that this experience is not one I would want to repeat, the city’s...
