Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Marin Center in San Rafael California, design in 1957. It was his last commission and opened in 1962 after his death. The selection of Frank L. Wright was controversial at the time, and the structure …
Category: California
(Jeremy Levine Design– flickr/creative commons license) This project in South Eagle California included a remodel and addition to a hillside home. Designed by Jeremy Levine, it was completed in 2008. A red stucco block juts over an open-air porch. Concrete …
(cybaea– flickr/creative commons license) The Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel is the tallest building on the west coast waterfront, at 497 ft. The hotel was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and opened in 1992. The smaller Seaport Tower opened …
(LHOON– flickr/creative commons license) The Los Angeles Union Station LAUS, built in 1939, is perhaps the only remaining railway station of the United States’ once great railroad structures. The station was built by John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson with …
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects completed this addition to the historic Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento, California. It opened in October 2010. The steel frame building receives a clean white finish with careful consideration to a North-facing courtyard, wide …
(Mike Disharoon– flickr/creative commons license) The 1908 Emporium dome by Albert Pissis gestures the shopper into the Bloomingdale at the Westfield Mall, the largest mall in the west. Opening in 2006, this development by The Westfield Group and Forest City …
(chad_k– flickr/creative commons license) The Sundial bridge by Santiago Calatrava spans the Sacramento River at Turtle Bay in Redding, California. The 700 ft bridge only allows pedestrians and bicycles, so the opportunities for alternative materials were used. The glass floor …
The Getty Center in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California was designed by Richard Meier and opened in late 1997. The extensive pre-20th-century European art and American photography collection is displayed in a slowing permeable structure of white, overlooking gardens and the …
Fresh off his success at Bilbao, Frank Gehry designed the spectacular Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, California. Featured in many films, this building has become an international icon of L.A. and of modern architectural prowess since its …
(dannyfowler– flickr/creative commons license) The Hyatt in San Francisco’s financial district was designed in 1972 by John Portman, that’s right something good came out of the seventies. An extensive brutal concrete structure is layered around a central atrium with gardens …