Robin Chiang & Company
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
When used as ornament in western architecture plants have generally been rendered naturalistically as if they grew on the buildings they adorned, as shown in the example below. Plants are not just the low-lying...
I was educated as an architect, but most of my best design lessons have been derived from daily life in the built environment. Perhaps the strongest influence on my aesthetic sense is having lived...
The Story of the 13 Prints of Bucky Fuller’s Inventions at SFMOMA →
Book Review: Long Now, Works in Progress →
San Francisco’s Central Subway: Part II – Underground Stations →
Cargo Way/Bay Trail Conceptual Design Study →
Book Review: 100 Years of UC Berkeley’s Architecture Department →
San Francisco’s Central Subway and its Roots →
