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SOCIALIGHT / International Lighting Competition

by jgonot on Mar 24, 2013 • Comments Closed

SOCIALIGHT / The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value...

Design / Video

Objectified

by jgonot on Feb 5, 2013 • Comments Closed

Whether its sub-conscious or physical, we are all designers. Almost everything we come in contact with in our lives has been designed, analyzed, and designed again. Objectified portrays design as a constant necessity in an ever changing world, and that couldn’t be more true. In the film they spoke with...

Architecture / Design / Environment / Landscape Architecture

Design: It’s About Time

by jgonot on Sep 18, 2012 • Comments Closed

September has been filled with events in San Francisco geared towards the Architecture and the City Festival put on by the American Institute of Architects San Francisco. Design: Its About Time was the keynote lecture that included a panel of Walter Hood of HOOD Design, Jane Martin, AIA of Shift Design Studio,...

Architecture / Art / Design / Photography

Buckminster Fuller at SFMOMA

by jgonot on Jul 25, 2012 • Comments Closed

A father figure to the counter culture of the 60s, architect, innovator, designer—it would be easier to say what Buckminster Fuller isn’t. Starting back in March of this year to the end of this month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has an exhibition about him and its exceptionally...

Architecture / Environment

City Beautiful Movement: Adapting to the Modern World – Part One

by jgonot on Jul 16, 2012 • Comments Closed

Originating from Daniel Burnham’s belief that city/urban planning should “promote a harmonious social order that would increase the quality of life,” the City Beautiful Movement spurred the grandeur and beauty of land planning, civic social order and architecture found in many American cities. Question is, how has this ideology changed...

Architecture / Landscape Architecture / Photography

Built Environment at Night

by jgonot on May 7, 2012 • Comments Closed

Lighting can make all the difference. Here are a few to whet the appetite. Caltrans, District 7 HQ, Los Angeles, CA Millenium Park, Chicago, IL Downtown Chicago Guilded Balloon, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Glasgow, Scotland, UK Joshua Tree National Park, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA Champs Elysees, Paris, France Paris, France...

Art / Environment / Video

Landscapes and Their Place In Film

by jgonot on Feb 14, 2012 • Comments Closed

Film is a powerful medium that can transcend a world’s perception and it details so elegant, and vividly. Sometimes we take for granted these environments, these landscapes that we become so attached to and cherish. The moving picture is an out of body experience, but when a film can achieve...

Art / Design / Opinion

Art in the Landscape Impacted by Abstraction

by jgonot on Oct 10, 2011 • Comments Closed

How does the process of abstraction create a relationship between the landscape and art within it? Well we should probably look no further than the man who developed the process of abstraction, Robert Irwin. He thought that art was a useful tool in creating a personal perception of the world...

Architecture / Art / Design / Landscape Architecture / Photography

Glasgow on the Clyde

by jgonot on Sep 1, 2011 • Comments Closed

The River Clyde meanders through the center of Glasgow, Scotland. Because of this, it has created a blue collar southern half, and a more affluent northern half. Glasgow’s two major soccer clubs, Celtic FC and Rangers FC play in one of the fiercest rivalries in club soccer in the world....

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Museum of Craft & Design Re-Opens at New Location in San Francisco

by jgonot on Apr 13, 2013 • Comments Closed

The Museum of Craft and Design re-located to a large space in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco to a grand opening this past weekend on April 6th. No one was disappointed. The mission of the museum is more than to display works of art. With after school art classes for youth as well as...

Landscape Architecture

Easter at Descanso Gardens

by jgonot on Apr 13, 2013 • Comments Closed

Last weekend my family and I enjoyed the holiday and the change of seasons at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge in Southern California. Though the cloudy skies and rain might not have suggested its spring in California, it was still a perfect day out together amongst the flowers and gardens in full bloom. Of...

Design / Projects

Railway Station Under the Cloud

by jgonot on Mar 25, 2013 • Comments Closed

This is a unique project that joins the landscape with that of architecture “amidst the clouds.” The project of the railway station in Sevastopol, Ukraine, created by Arthur Kupreychuk, consists of a passenger terminal building underneath a hanging air cloud-canopy above it. Certainly a creative concept. The supporting structure of the canopy is similar to...

Art / Design / Photography

Andy Goldsworthy & the Presidio

by jgonot on Feb 20, 2013 • Comments Closed

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Winery Architecture & Landscape

by jgonot on Jan 26, 2013 • Comments Closed

The four wineries shown here are in no specific order and are from Artesa Winery, Robert Sinskey Winery, Andretti Winery, and Quixote Winery all in and around Napa, California. Winery Architecture & Landscape, a set on Flickr.

Architecture / Design

SF Jazz Center To Be Completed Soon, Re-Opens This Month

by jgonot on Jan 14, 2013 • Comments Closed

Originally located near the Financial District of the city, the San Francisco Jazz Center is now located in the neighborhood of Hayes Valley. Concerts starting on MLK Jr. Day, January 21st, kick-off the new season and the opening of the new jazz center. The building was constructed and designed with jazz in mind. It is...

Art / Design / Landscape Architecture / Photography

Rapha Bicycle Club Brings Tactical Urbanism to the Marina

by jgonot on Jan 7, 2013 • Comments Closed

Riding my bike provides numerous health benefits. From San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge and into Marin County and back, my rides conclude at Rapha in the Marina District of San Francisco at Fillmore and Filbert. Its here at Rapha that one finds themselves sipping on an espresso or coffee from Fourbarrel Coffee while...

Opinion / Video

Urbanized

by jgonot on Dec 2, 2012 • Comments Closed

In a world of constant uncertainty, there are positives to take note of forming in the great urban cores of the world, our cities. The urban landscape has forever changed from the days we once knew before the automobile. “Urbanized“, a documentary by Gary Hustwit, looks beyond that and provides examples of the changing urban...

Architecture / Design / Environment / Photography / Projects

SMUD East Campus Operations Center

by jgonot on Sep 5, 2012 • Comments Closed

You might not know the acronym SMUD and thats fine. What you should know is SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) is the 6th largest public utility in the country and currently has under-construction their East Campus Operations Center. The building is being developed to become the “nation’s largest, most sustainable fleet operations campus.” SMUD campus is making an effort...

Projects / Video

Rio 2016 Will Be An Unrivaled Experience

by jgonot on Aug 26, 2012 • Comments Closed

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post at Land8 about unsustainable methods in master planning Olympic venues and the hopefully success of the Rio 2016 Olympics. As a follow up to that post, here is a video of Rio 2016 Olympics from James Shaw on Vimeo. Joga bonita!

Design / Environment

City Beautiful Movement: Adapting to the Modern World – Part Three

by jgonot on Aug 7, 2012 • Comments Closed

In regards to developing the City Beautiful Movement in the new century and into the future, City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century, by John Lund Kriken, streamlines the main points in how to build cities more efficiently, sustainably, and beautifully. Simply highlighting the main points of the book, so for more in-depth...