It will never stop being funny to me how thoughtful, tasteful, styled and expensive the lobby of an apartment building can be … compared to the boring, value engineered blandness of the actual units
This is an example of how details have to be integrated into a design or it gives off a worse impression of neglect than if there were no details at all
This question was posed @SFClimateWeek: How does regeneration work while still maintaining the benefits of capitalism?
We have to extract value from the resources we have instead of building more.
In cities that’s called retrofitting.
For our downtown to be vibrant, it must be a place people want to be 24/7 — that means inviting tourists back, opening new businesses, and building more homes.
One of my favorite apartment buildings I've come across in some time. Warm, earthy, strong natural materials, and eminently welcoming.
The most surprising part? It's public housing!