Book Review: Long Now, Works in Progress
This small book is about a big subject: the history of a 10,000 Year clock–its concept, its sponsors, its makers, and the evolution of its design.
October 15, 2008 |The Long Now Foundation – Museum and Store
Supposing that occasionally taking the long contemplative view is indeed a good thing, where do you stand to get one? One place where your search will be rewarded is The Long Now Foundation’s Museum and Store.
October 15, 2008 |Lawrence Halprin’s new outdoor theater in Stern Grove’s Concert Meadow
“To create a mystical place where one would be inspired to reach into oneself.” This was landscape architect Lawrence Halprin’s intent in designing a new outdoor theater for San Francisco’s Stern Grove Concert Meadow.
September 17, 2008 |Cargo Way/Bay Trail Conceptual Design Study
Planning effort to develop a conceptual design for Cargo Way, a segment of the Bay Trail to make it safe and attractive for pedestrians and cyclists while ensuring the industrial boulevard serves the City’s industrial and cargo freight transportation needs.
September 12, 2008 |Greening the Port of San Francisco’s Backlands
The latest master plan for the Port of San Francisco’s 47 acres Backlands, Piers 90 and 94, identifies potential tenants with both the means to build and operate within a sustainability program.
September 9, 2008 |Book Review: The Designer’s Atlas by Ann Thorpe
The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability is about how design in all fields can move toward the goals of sustainability; the integration of information about design and sustainability rewards users with a rich range of ideas, concepts, and facts presented in a sophisticated format that is itself thought-provoking. As with other kinds of atlases, the varied text does not converge on one conclusion. Rather, readers take what they need to make their own.
July 24, 2008 |Oakland’s Luminous New Cathedral
The inclusion of the word, light, in the name of Oakland ’s new Roman Catholic cathedral inspired the architects at the San Francisco office of SOM to design the cathedral as the embodiment of light. Thus, the building now nearing completion on the west shore of Lake Merritt is wrapped in translucent walls that convey the impression of layered light.
July 18, 2008 |UC Berkeley’s new East Asian Library
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library on the University of California’s Berkeley campus opened in March 2008. Designed by Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, the building occupies a site on the north edge of the Memorial Glade that is part of the campus’s landmarked Classical Core. Yet, while honoring its context, the architects have created a building that has more in common with the tenets of Modernism than those of Classicism.
July 15, 2008 |