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WTF: California Funding & Investments
Posted on 07 March 2010.
This is the first of a reoccurring feature we will cal: What The Façade or WTF Every once in awhile you come across a building that is really well thought out, contextual and pleasing to the eye. This is not the case with the building below. One of our readers sent us the image below with [...]
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Decade in Review: Top 10 in Fresno Architecture
Posted on 31 December 2009.
Inspired by an article that John King wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, we decided to do a Decade in Review article to identify the 10 best buildings representing Fresno architecture. Our parameters were that the buildings be in Fresno County with construction completed between 2000 and 2009. The reviewers were Joe Moore, president of [...]
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step loudly – Henry Madden Library design flaw
Posted on 13 October 2009.
The Henry Madden Library at CSU Fresno is perhaps the most high profile new building in the San Joaquin Valley. It surely is has become a landmark building and destination of the Fresno State campus. The Madden Library warrants a full detailed review, which my take sometime. However, recently a note was posted to the [...]
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City to draft RFP for former Met properties
Posted on 18 September 2009.
The topic for today is the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science. he City of Fresno is in escrow for the block containing the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science and a parcel across the street containing a parking lot. By everyone’s account, the city did not want to own this property. You may [...]
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APA California 2009 Conference
Posted on 14 September 2009.
In May of 2009 the California Planning Roundtable was held in Fresno. The California Planning Roundtable (CPR) is an organization of experienced planning professionals who are members of the American Planning Association (APA). The mission of the Roundtable is to provide a forum for prominent planners to exercise creativity and leadership in promoting understanding of [...]
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open the mall to traffic
Posted on 26 August 2009.
It can be hard to realize how entrenched and polarized some arguments have become. Then someone witty comes along & turns the argument on it’s head. That is what happened today when THE FRESNAN (who we’ve highlighted before) wrote a fantastic satire of a post that throws all the much debated changes to the Fulton [...]
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a young architect
Posted on 25 August 2009.
I get lots of lawn care flyers at my door. These flyers for the most part are copies of hand written originals. Others where created in the computer and include clip art of a lawnmower or other yard care icon. When I got home yesterday, there was a new flyer jutting out of my mail slot. [...]
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the last of the urban pioneers?
Posted on 14 August 2009.
The origin of the question “The last of the urban pioneers?” came a few weeks ago as I biked down Fulton to Milano. I noticed a new sign that intrigued me. It was in the empty lot next to Tokyo Gardens. The building that once stood there was demolished by the City of Fresno due [...]
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Critique: Tower District Streetscape Design Charrette
Posted on 27 July 2009.
Hank Delcore, Ph.D., and Kiel Famellos-Schmidt also found at http://theanthroguys.com Saturday from 10am to 2pm, about a hundred Tower District residents and business owners gathered for a design charrette put on by the City of Fresno planning department and MW Steele Group. Steele has the contract for planning a redesigned Tower District streetscape as part of [...]
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Historic Preservation Commission
Posted on 16 July 2009.
Today on the Fresno City Council agenda is a proposal by Mayor Ashley Swearengin to amending the Fresno Municipal Code relating to the Historic Preservation Commission. That is not as drastic as it may sound and maybe a good modification. In fact, her bid for election as mayor was supported by several prominent local architects. [...]
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at the table
Posted on 10 July 2009.
The Business Journal has been contacting me allot lately for information about architecture in the San Joaquin Valley. Most of this interaction has happened because of Twitter. I think this is fantastic. One of archop’s goals has been to get architecture more regularly and accurately feature in local media. The Business Journal is setting the [...]
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theory thursday: value of critique
Posted on 25 June 2009.
Yesterday, our humble website strode clear over a milestone. For the first time we had over 100 visits to the site in a single day. By midnight, we actually had 184 visits. Our previous high was 79 visits, set on April 14th during National Architecture Week. We built this website back in January with the help [...]
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Broadway Auto Row to be demolished
Posted on 24 June 2009.
In addition to the L Street & San Joaquin Avenue proposal, also on Monday’s agenda of the City of Fresno Historic Preservation Commission was the proposed demolition of three properties on Broadway Avenue near Tuolumne. The three building were not on any historic registry. However, in a historic survey of the area they were found [...]
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critique: L St. and San Joaquin Ave.
Posted on 22 June 2009.
Today is the City of Fresno Historic Preservation Commission meeting. There are several interesting items on the agenda, but I’d like to focus on one. Darius Assemi of Granville Homes has asked to meet with the Commission to present a conceptual plan for a mixed-use project at the corner of L Street and San Joaquin [...]
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Robin Gay McCline’s last designs
Posted on 05 June 2009.
September 22nd, 2008 the City of Fresno Historic Preservation Commission accepted the Mid-Century Modernism Historic Context report prepared by Lauren MacDonald. Robin Gay McCline and his wife Sue were present at the meeting. The report include interviews with Gay, features several of his notable works and a short biography. It was a momentous day for [...]
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Fresno City Hall architect, Arthur Erickson (1924-2009)
Posted on 23 May 2009.
Prominent Canadian architect Arthur Erickson died Wednesday May 20th at the age of 84. He was living in a Vancouver B.C. suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This was brought to my attention through an article in Washington Post (requires login), same article without pictures on HeraldNet (no login required). Erickson was a very accomplished architect and designed [...]
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South Van Ness
Posted on 22 May 2009.
In today’s Fresno Bee, George Hostetter explored the existing light industrial businesses that inhabit what he calls a “forgotten part of downtown“. Explore the neighborhood here: View Larger Map For those of us that frequent Art Hop we know this area well because of Kliszewski Glass, and Chris Sorensen’s Studio. And we know how the road is [...]
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critique: Tower Tattoos
Posted on 02 May 2009.
This week in an email from Craig Scharton, Director of Downtown and Community Revitalization of the City of Fresno. He asked: “As some of the area’s leaders in architectural thought, what do you think the role of architectural criticism should be? Is it possible to raise consciousness about our built environment, standards of design [...]
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Fresnan blogs about landscape
Posted on 22 April 2009.
Via twitter the I found this post about landscape. I’m interested hearing fresnans talking about architecture, design equity, and the current archop topic landscape. The Fresnan is a leading indie blogger. So Fresnans, what are underused unkept landscapes in your routine? How could they be improved?
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sustained marketability
Posted on 16 April 2009.
This week I received my copy of dwell magazine in the mail. The cover reads “BEYOND GREEN From Niche to Normal” The issue acknowledges what we’ve all witnessed in this last decade; green has gone from extreme to mainstream. And yet there a a few paradoxes I observe. Most architects have always believed in sustainable design. [...]
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