“Language of the Birds” is a new site-specific solar-powered artwork by Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn. It’s suspended above a new pedestrian plaza at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue where North Beach and Chinatown collide, and the ground is printed with words that have “fallen” from the books. Festivities at the unveiling included [...]
The NY Times reported the winner of the CityRacks Design Competition in New York today, a contest to find the next generation design for all the city’s sidewalk bike racks. The winning design, called “Hoop” is by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve from Copenhagen.
If only we could get the Bike Plan Injunction lifted [...]
Shawnim and Deellan Kashani, the 14-year-old twin daughters of Ali Kashani (co-founder of Citycentric, one of our developer collaborators) spent a day visiting DB+P and shadowing designers Amanda Loper and Sara Mae Martens. The two made trees for architectural models, learned about green roofs and green building technology, and organized samples and submittals with Sara [...]
From Mad Magazine artist Al Jaffee’s recently released comics collection, “Tall Tales.” Who hasn’t been here?
We celebrated Halloween along Telegraph in Temescal. All the shops were open for trick-or-treating and there were jugglers, bands, and costumed kiddies galore. Here’s a pic of my 2 1/2 year old snaggle-toothed tiger, Niam.
I’m serving on the Seattle AIA Honor Awards jury this weekend with two architects whose work I admire: Patricia Patkau from Vancouver and Nadir Tehrani, Office dA, from Boston. Here they examine a critical downspout detail at local building entered in the competition. Actual site visits of potential honorees are a part of this ambitious [...]
