Articles Tagged with ''California''

Pittman Dowell Residence

Breaking Conventions: Michael Maltzan designs a house for a nontraditional household.

Clifford A. Pearson

April 19, 2010

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Breaking Conventions: Michael Maltzan designs a house for a nontraditional household.

Josephine Minutillo

March 19, 2010

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Transportation: Bath Spa Bus StationCarrasco International Airport New Terminal Dubai Metro Red Line and Green Line Fairbanks International Airport Li'ge-Guillemins TGV Railway Station Terminal B Concourse, Mineta San Jose International Airport The Rosa Parks Transit Center Tempe Transportation Center International Arrivals Building Expansion at Washington Dulles International Airport Project Specs Terminal B Concourse, Mineta San Jose International Airport San Jose, California Gensler, in association with Steinberg Architects << Return to article the People Client: City of San Jose Architect: Gensler, in association with Steinberg Architects 2500 Broadway, Suite 300 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Gensler Two Harrison Street, Suite 400 San

Virginia Avenue Park Expansion

October 1, 2009

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In 1999, Koning Eizenberg Architecture and Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects were commissioned to design the Virginia Avenue Park expansion.

Sava Pool in San Francisco

October 1, 2009

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The Sava Pool, designed for both recreational and competitive functions, is situated at the southern end of a public park between a vehicular thoroughfare and a residential neighborhood.

Northwestern Division Police Substation by Safdie Architects

Del Mar, California

October 1, 2009

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In a residential area of Del Mar, California, the architects designed a police station that successfully avoids the institutional aesthetic.

Baldwin Hills

Safdie Rabines Architects tread lightly with a master plan for a new state park above the Los Angeles suburbs.

Sebastian Howard

October 1, 2009

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In 2000, California State Parks (CSP) spent just over $41 million acquiring 57 rolling acres for parkland after citizens of Culver City, California, had protested a planned residential development on the site.

Santa Ynez Residence

Santa Ynez master bathroom breaks boundaries.

Aleksandr Bierig

September 19, 2009

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On a 20-acre site in Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley, Frederick Fisher and Partners designed a large house open to its surroundings, taking advantage of the area’s balmy climate and stunning landscapes.

Performance Capture Studio

Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Kanner convert a pair of old aircraft hangars into a Performance Capture Studio by breaking down hierarchies.

Clifford A. Pearson

September 2, 2009

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Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Kanner refer to the checkerboard wall snaking through their Performance Capture Studio (PCS) north of San Francisco as a “strange loop,” a term used in film and other arts to describe something that breaks down the usual hierarchies of time or space and ends up where it started.

The Energy Foundation

TannerHecht Architecture's new home for The Energy Foundation boldly underscores the nonprofit's mission.

Beth Broome

September 2, 2009

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When the Energy Foundation, a partnership of philan-thropic investors that promotes clean-energy technolo-gies, outgrew its offices in a former military hospital on San Francisco's Presidio, it saw an opportunity to recreate its headquarters not only to accommodate its rapidly growing staff, but also to better reflect its mission.

Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT)

JFAK’s renovation of the Guggenheim Building at Caltech’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratories is an experiment in florid functionalism.

Sebastian Howard

September 1, 2009

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As you enter the lobby of the California Institute of Tech-nology’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), your eye is drawn upward, where an amoebalike entity clings to the ceiling.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Explore modern façade and glazing systems that enhance daylighting, fire safety, and thermal performance while expanding architectural design possibilities.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 PDH

Explore façade retrofit strategies and award-winning design concepts that can transform aging office buildings into healthier, higher-performing workplaces for today’s hybrid workforce.