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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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Hidden Gem in San Francisco

by jgonot on Jul 21, 2012 • Comments Closed

Some of my family came to visit a few weeks ago and spotted this hidden gem of a roof top courtyard at the Marriot in Northbeach.

Design / Landscape Architecture / Opinion

Designed by ________ in California?

by jgonot on Jun 20, 2012 • Comments Closed

For anyone who is an Apple product user, these words literally encapsulate the identity of Apple. Much like the magazine BOOM is suggesting, “what does it mean to be designed in California?” This can be said about any aspect of design in California. All to often we find ourselves in society buying products that are ubiquitously tagged...

Architecture / Design

Euro 2012 Stadiums

by jgonot on Jun 4, 2012 • Comments Closed

Quickly approaching is the quadrennial event held this year jointly between Poland and Ukraine. First match is June 8 and the tournament concludes July 1. While the football/soccer is always entertaining, the stadiums and the areas surrounding them are just as intriguing. Below are the 8 host venues scattered across Poland and Ukraine. Poland Warsaw...

Architecture / Landscape Architecture / Photography / Projects

Lands End Lookout and Trail

by jgonot on May 22, 2012 • Comments Closed

Recently completed Land’s End Lookout provides a proper setting to match the views of the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco-based firms EHDD and Surface Design, teamed up to bring the project to fruition. The new structure ties into other improvements along the Land’s End Trail which stretches north along the coast...

Architecture / Environment / Landscape Architecture / Photography

California Academy of Science

by jgonot on May 16, 2012 • Comments Closed

Recently visited California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park on one of their bi-annual free neighborhood events, and the following images document the visit. Enjoy! Also, coming soon is the museum’s Earthquake exhibit.

Competitions / Design / Landscape Architecture

SHIFT: process Call for Submissions

by jgonot on May 14, 2012 • Comments Closed

North Carolina State University’s Student ASLA Chapter seeks submissions for it’s 2nd annual professional-reviewed landscape architecture student journal, SHIFT: process. Recognizing that students represent the next generation of leaders and design innovators, SHIFT provides a scholarly and provocative forum for professional-reviewed student research into emerging issues at the forefront of landscape architecture theory and practice. SHIFT fosters creative interaction across disciplinary boundaries...

Architecture / Design / Projects

Monterey Peninsula College Student Services Center

by jgonot on Apr 17, 2012 • Comments Closed

Monterey Peninsula College Student Services Center HGA Architects & Engineers, Employing forward-thinking design solutions to meet today’s higher education facility budgets. Flexibility and sustainability are more vital now than ever in architecture, particularly in higher education where every dollar counts. The HGA Architects and Engineers-designed Student Services Center at Monterey Peninsula College, which opened in Fall...

Architecture / Design / Landscape Architecture

Cal Poly Pomona New Recreation Center

by jgonot on Apr 11, 2012 • Comments Closed

College, the formative years. They are going to be great years for the students of Cal Poly Pomona. Back in September 2010, the university’s Board of Trustees agreed to get construction underway on a new recreation center. Previously, in 2008-09, the university was trying to pass a similar plan for a recreation center, with a...

Design / Environment / Opinion

What SB 375 Means for California and the Greater Population

by jgonot on Mar 26, 2012 • Comments Closed

The California Environmental Protection Agency, more commonly known as the EPA, struck up Senate Bill 375 in 2008. Its purpose is to “enhance California’s ability to reach its AB 32 goals by promoting good planning with the goal of more sustainable communities”. You are probably thinking to yourself, well its California and that doesn’t apply to me....

Architecture / Design

Bridge Engineering and Design

by jgonot on Mar 14, 2012 • Comments Closed

These aren’t the bridges of Madison County, not at all. Don’t know why I gravitate toward it, but bridge engineering and design is a personal favorite. The following are bridges of interest, ones being proposed, and some under construction. James Joyce Bridge, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy Ponte della Costituzione, Venice, Italy...

Art / Design

Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design

by jgonot on Feb 21, 2012 • Comments Closed

Recently visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA for short, and quickly became enthralled by an exhibit. This particular exhibit showcased products from the German company Braun during 1960s and 70s that Dieter Rams designed. Items ranged from coffee makers to shavers to audio systems to watches. The following are ten principles by Mr....

Art / Environment / Photography

Sutro Heights and Bath Ruins

by jgonot on Jan 30, 2012 • Comments Closed

Past and Present What was once a popular site for San Franciscans is still a popular site today. The Sutro Bath Ruins remain an artifact of the city’s hustle and bustle during the turn of the century when the baths were first opened in 1896. It was a great period in American innovation and design. ...