This is what happens when the designer is told to create a “classical style” building, but all they can think to do is align some rectangular windows, slap on some columns, paint everything white and […]
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An addition to an existing apartment complex showing no flair or imagination. No attempt to blend with neighborhood. No decorative accents. No attempt to match the existing and recently renovated building. Bare white walls within
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The City of San Diego has had a stormwater infrastructure problem for years. A 2021 memo from the city’s stormwater department says, “Like all infrastructure, the system has aged and deteriorated. The impacts of these
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The 30th Street bike lane was added to support the expansion of San Diego’s bike transportation network. The bike lane was intended to create a protected space for bikers to commute. However, nearly all of
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Nomination 1: MTS installed this gigantic triangular video billboard at the the entry to the Gaslamp Quarter, at the foot of Fifth Avenue, opposite the Convention Center. MTS gets a cut of the advertising revenue
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Gallagher Square is a city owned park, leased to Padres L.P., located outside Petco Park stadium. As promised to the taxpayers, G.S. (originally Park at the Park) was designed as an urban green refuge, for
I nominate that San Diego High School’s “Whole Site Modernization Project” receive an Onion for Historic Preservation. San Diego High School is described as “San Diego’s oldest high school” according to the article with “140
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The City of San Diego’s boldly minimalist design for the Safe Sleeping Site has many rubes scratching their heads at its understatement. Most architects will tell you that the key to housing is protection against
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“A lot can be gleaned about a city’s built environment priorities by looking at where building electric transformers are located.” This is not a statement uttered frequently, if ever, but is instigated by this recent
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The historic Balboa Theatre, a city-owned landmark, was painstakingly restored inside and out in 2008. The $27M restoration was funded by the City of San Diego via CCDC and won many awards. Inexplicably, the Balboa
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The City of San Diego has created a document called the Climate Action Plan – I’m sure you have heard of it. A big effort when Faulconer was Mayor. In it, the City called
Located at the westernmost end of the U.S.-Mexico border where San Diego, California, meets Tijuana, Mexico, Friendship Park and Monument Mesa is an important bi-national cultural landscape. The park was established on August 18, 1971,
