Poise

Whites

Keep On Trucking

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Mural

Field Of Dreams

Fly Away With Me

Animal City

One of the unexpected treats of moving to California is witnessing first hand the amazing abundance of interactions that occurs between urban environments and wildlife. From the sea lions at San Francisco’s fisherman’s wharf, to the occasional sighting of coyotes on hiking trails located right near the Golden Gate Bridge, the usual urban animal encounters ...

Sutro

Aquarius

Found

I’ve become increasingly intrigued by the notion of found objects; those under appreciated gems lying right under our noses that, when recontextualized in a meaningful way, take on a specific type of beauty. From the inspiration of seeing the creative minds at Droog Design, to the dogged pursuit of sublime writings collected in my perennial favourite, Found ...

Woof

Takes The Cake

I’ve seen some pretty incredible architectural solutions over the years, mostly in European cities. Modern amenities were never part of the grand scheme of things in buildings that are often centuries old; coming across a wall that veers wildly off-axis, or stairways that require mountain climbing gear were always tolerated, even if borderline dangerous. Having said that, ...

Nuts And Bolts

Decisions

Encountered in one of Oakland’s epicenters of crime. Some places are worse than others to sow confusion, even when after some thought it all turns out to make sense. . .

Make Hay

I’m a firm advocate of the notion that Architecture lives beyond the boundaries of what is its traditional definition – as being the art and science of designing and erecting buildings. I posit instead that Architecture encompasses all manufactured volume that defines or alters space, even if only by proxy. The hay bales, so common ...

Blu Dot Red Bed

I came across this bed frame while wandering around the desert town of Twentynine Palms over the Christmas break. Finding this simple red bed unceremoniously dumped onto a red sidewalk reminded me of a recent endeavor by New York based Blu Dot Design. The essence of Blu Dot’s experiment was to randomly locate some chairs ...

Americana

Road trip + motel + faux animal print bed sheets + remote control + US flag = 100% Americana. . .

Jet

I need to visit Eero Saarinen’s majestic TWA Terminal in JKF someday. Until then I will always have the Mojave.

The Fuel Economy

Few things allude more to the fuel economy than the motel (or motor hotel). Quintessentially American, the lowly motel typology has long been celebrated as a symbol of the wide open expanses of this vast country. Ed Ruscha’s fantastic depictions of gas stations is one of the best examples of the elevation of the theme ...

Shazam!

A recent post reminded me of an image from the archives. This was shot in a San Francisco scrapyard that resells pretty much anything construction related from demolished buildings.