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The new Brower Center in Berkeley

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Architecture | 5 Comments »

The recently completed David Brower Center is a memorial to a major figure in the environmental movement. The building design and its structural system were created to insure that the physical embodiment of Brower’s legacy would be a state-of-the-art expression of his life’s work.

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Oakland’s Luminous New Cathedral

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Architecture | No Comments »

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.

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