http://designbythebay.com Robin Chiang & Company Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:06:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:22 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=697 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. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/feed/ 6 http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/oaklands-new-cathedral/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/oaklands-new-cathedral/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:56:43 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=154 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/oaklands-new-cathedral/feed/ 0