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Yosemite upgrades natural by design

The chunks of granite look as if they've been there all along, a natural outcrop on the terrain along Big Oak Flat Road. But they only arrived this past summer, and each was placed with deliberate care. "We wanted a divider to separate the viewing area ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Muir,  Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin's living legacy in S.F.

And even the ones that went awry drive home a larger point: The open space around us helps define a city's culture and life. The renowned landscaper died Oct. 25 at the age of 93 at his home in Marin after a remarkable career. There are terrains in ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lawrence Halprin,  Joseph McCarthy,  Levi Strauss

Built to last, yet home to change

If architecture is frozen music, to quote the German author Goethe, it also serves as a display case of sorts: showing us how, in cities, time never stands still. The baroque flourishes on this glassy sliver were designed to convey a sense of ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Forbes Magazine

Architect Lawrence Halprin dies

His career spanned 60 years, touching such cultural landmarks as Ghirardelli Square, Market Street, the restoration of Stern Grove and the original design of UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. He also was one of the creators of the design for Sea Ranch, the ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lawrence Halprin,  University of California Berkeley,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Salvador Dali

Lawrence Halprin - landscape architect - dies

He left his mark at all scales, from the crafting of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square in the 1960s to the transformation of the 52-acre base of Yosemite Falls that was completed in 2005. Mr. Halprin's best-known national work is the Franklin Delano ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Frank Lloyd Wright,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Frank Gehry,  Museum of Modern Art,  Harvard University

Botanist's green walls take plants to new level

But in real life it's sure to turn heads, what with the vegetated wall that will fill a 50-foot-wide stretch of Broderick Street near Pacific Heights - fashioned by a French designer who favors all manners of green, including a bright green dye for his ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ivy League,  Jean Nouvel

353 Folsom is a blue-collar survivor

This wonderful chunk of blue-collar heft - a copper foundry into the 1960s, mostly architect offices since then - is the antithesis of everything that has sprouted of late on Rincon Hill. It hunkers low to the ground rather than crane skyward for views, ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Bay Area architects of new, old win top honors

But as the political rhetoric bogs down in dubious claims from both sides, a batch of awards from outside groups offers a heartening distraction - highlighting the Bay Area's impressive success rate at bringing new life to old buildings. Case in point: ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Albert Kahn,  Ford Motor Company

Whimsy, packed in rubble walls

Forest Hill is the sort of genteel neighborhood where Mission Revival nods to Mock Tudor across steep walkways announced with classical urns. Adding to the ambiance: idiosyncratic delights like this cross between a medieval cottage and a baronial ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BMW

Signs wouldn't be worst blight on S.F.'s Market

Author William Bronson used the scene to illustrate and bemoan the "environmental plague" of "hard-sell visual pollution." Viewed in hindsight, though, something else grabs my eye: the abundance of people on the sidewalks, all classes and all on the ...

From JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Oct 2009

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