Sally B. Woodbridge

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

The new Brower Center in Berkeley

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.

  Go to Post | February 8th, 2010

BRIDGE Housing at 25

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The BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a non-profit company considered by many to be the state’s foremost developer of affordable housing, has built more than 13,000 housing units since its founding in 1983.

  Go to Post | December 17th, 2009

Salvation Army’s new Turk Street Center

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The Salvation Army’s Turk Street Center, designed by Herman Coliver Locus, is that rare building which both honors the context of an historic district and stands out as decidedly contemporary.

  Go to Post | June 29th, 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

Book Review: Long Now, Works in Progress

This small book is about a big subject: the history of a 10,000 Year clock–its concept, its sponsors, its makers, and the evolution of its design.

  Go to Post | October 15th, 2008