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, 2010parks & open space
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, 2010Emeryville’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, 2010After 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, 2009Lawrence 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, 2008Lawrence 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












