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/2010/09/overlook-book-review/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/09/overlook-book-review/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:00:42 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=1064 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/09/overlook-book-review/feed/ 8 http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/san-mateos-shoreline-parks/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/san-mateos-shoreline-parks/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:45:17 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=945 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/san-mateos-shoreline-parks/feed/ 4 http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/doyle-hollis-park/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/doyle-hollis-park/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:44 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=967 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/06/doyle-hollis-park/feed/ 2 http://designbythebay.com/2009/03/after-it-came-and-went/ http://designbythebay.com/2009/03/after-it-came-and-went/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:20:21 +0000 RCCo http://designbythebay.com/?p=398 The Ninth World Social Forum 2009 took place in Belem, Brazil but did little to highlight the city's own social problems.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2009/03/after-it-came-and-went/feed/ 0 http://designbythebay.com/2008/12/halprin-gardens-levis-plaza/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/12/halprin-gardens-levis-plaza/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:41:22 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=305 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. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/12/halprin-gardens-levis-plaza/feed/ 3 http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/stern-groves-concert-meadow/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/stern-groves-concert-meadow/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:35:29 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=180 “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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/stern-groves-concert-meadow/feed/ 5 http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/cargo-way-conceptual-design/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/cargo-way-conceptual-design/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:14:58 +0000 RCCo http://designbythebay.com/?p=176 Planning effort to develop a conceptual master plan for Cargo Way, a segment of the Bay Trail in Bayview Hunter's Point. Presently an industrial boulevard serving the City’s cargo and freight transportation needs, the process established strategies and guidelines for a safe and attractive mix used street shared with pedestrians and cyclists.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/cargo-way-conceptual-design/feed/ 0 http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/greening-the-backlands/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/greening-the-backlands/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:56:11 +0000 Robin Chiang http://designbythebay.com/?p=172 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/09/greening-the-backlands/feed/ 0 http://designbythebay.com/2008/05/glenpark/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/05/glenpark/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 18:45:09 +0000 RCCo http://designbythebay.com/?p=16 The Glen Park Community Plan is one of several planning efforts underway in the City's transit-served neighborhoods. Glen Park with its BART station is a piece of the Citywide Action Plan to meet the need for housing and jobs. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/05/glenpark/feed/ 0