Archive for February 2009

La Salle Street Residence

This small project was a wonderful exercise in editing for me while I was working at Meyer + Silberberg. We discovered beautiful existing tree ferns hiding in a bramble of overgrown camellias and rhododendrons, and relocated others from elsewhere on the property. By simplifying the palette and removing the visual clutter, we were able to [...]

PCCD Offices

Third Nature provided design services for the PCCD Offices in Los Altos, California. Selected pavements were all high albedo (to reduce heat island effect) and plants selected were low water, low maintenance species.

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More architectural art…

Diasuke Ueno is another artist that is giving me design goosebumps… Greg and I saw this work in Japan a few years ago and it makes me think of  Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

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Prints by Salomon Huerta

I just came across these prints by Salomon Herta, and was charmed. They are so sweet, plain and grandiose at the same time.

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Fibrogen Headquarters During Construction

Here is Fiborgen Headquarters during construction last summer. If you have not yet seen the photos by Drew Kelly of the finished product, do check them out in the post below.

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Fibrogen Headquarters

While I was an associate at Meyer + Silberberg Land Architects I worked on Fibrogen’s San Francisco Mission Bay Headquarters with David Meyer and Ramsey Silberberg. My focus was primarily on the plant selection, along with the walls, amphitheater and stair  design. Construction was completed this year, and Drew Kelly of Drew Kelly Photography took [...]

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