Poise

Magic Trick

Busy

It’s been a very busy and productive few weeks. San Francisco continues to charm the heart, more now than ever. I recently started a new job that has completely taken over my time (hence my sporadic posting of late). One of the benefits of the new job is the 10 minute (walking) commute, which includes ...

Whites

Packing District

So Close

Clouds With Chance

Thunder Thighs

As a crucial arterial road running through the heart of San Francisco, an earthquake prone city, Highway 280 tends to be on the heavier side when it comes to structural considerations. Like a voluptuous centipede, it snakes through various neighbourhoods, displaying a consistent rhythmic cadence that manifests a desire to counter a future tremblor. It’s a thing of ...

Car Park

Parking Structures are the ugly ducklings of architecture; often done in haste as an afterthought to the grand project, the ambitious masterplan, or unceremoniously dumped into the middle of a city. One of the unexpected results of this approach is the typically spare and minimal design, where the “form-follows-function” creed is most often executed in its purest ...

On Hubris

Mid Term

Mid term goals: stay afloat, build up while there is downtime, look for the right job even when these are scarce, produce daily, stay mentally active, engage, keep focused, don’t stagnate. Long term

Mercy

My father worked for many years as a welder, one of thousands of workers at the Port of Durban, South Africa’s busiest harbour. I remember he would take the family there on Sunday drives, and as a child I would look out the window and stare at the massive cranes, or the moored container ships, ...

Cruise Alcatraz

Seeing Alcatraz from above, surrounded by numerous sailboats, I couldn’t help but wonder: how close could waterborne vessels get to the island, back in its prison days, and how did such outward displays of the good life make the prisoners feel?

Cubism

Daniel Libeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, located in the heart of the budding gallery district of Yerba Buena in downtown San Francisco, has enjoyed a remarkably smooth transition into the urban fabric. In a city that tends to be relatively conservative when it comes to architecture on the edge of mainstream design, the museum has not ...

The Giant Cross

I’ve always been fascinated by a rather large cross located in the heart of San Francisco, on Mount Davidson. Not knowing much about its origin brings me to speculate on what possible reasons could have brought this giant symbol of religion into a famously non-religious city. A quick search would no doubt render me an ...