parks & open space

Book Review: Overlook

OVERLOOK, Exploring the Internal Fringes of America presents a panoramic view of how land is used in United States. This book is for the curious who want to inhabit, investigate, and learn to interpret the environment.

  Go to Post | September 26th, 2010

San Mateo’s Shoreline Parks

Endres Ware provided architecture and engineering services for two parks in San Mateo along the Bay Trail, a 450-mile continuous open space corridor around the San Francisco Bay, helping to transform the once desolate and often windy expanse of waterfront.

  Go to Post | June 24th, 2010

Emeryville’s Doyle Hollis Park

Thoughtful design is not something one expects to find in the restroom buildings of public parks. So it is a pleasure to publish a noteworthy example of thoughtful, even elegant, design in the restroom facilities of the City of Emeryville’s Doyle Hollis Park.

  Go to Post | June 21st, 2010

After It Came and Went

The Ninth World Social Forum 2009 took place in Belem, Brazil but did little to highlight the city’s own social problems.

  Go to Post | March 31st, 2009

Lawrence Halprin’s Gardens at Levi’s Plaza

Levi’s Plaza, San Francisco’s most beautiful corporate estate, includes a spacious public park with streams, stepping stones and gardens, is a reminder of the civic generosity the blue jeans giant.

  Go to Post | December 10th, 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.

  Go to Post | September 17th, 2008