The UC Board of Regents moved forward Tuesday with plans to repair the university-owned Blake House, an abandoned mansion that traditionally has housed the UC president and accommodated local UC functions but has fallen into disrepair since 2008.
The UC Board of Regents moved forward Tuesday with plans to repair the university-owned Blake House, an abandoned mansion that traditionally has housed the UC president and accommodated local UC functions but has fallen into disrepair since 2008.
The University of California has launched Promise for Education, a six-week online crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters to raise money for UC student scholarships.
Anyone who has visited San Francisco's Ferry Building can sense the gravitational force. There is another way the force can be measured, perhaps the most revealing way of all: in the plans and visions for this crossroads that never came to pass.
Wurster Hall has been selected to participate in the ENERGY STAR Battle of the Buildings! Over the course of the 2013-2014 school year, we’ll battle it out against more than 3,200 buildings nationwide to see who can reduce their energy waste the most.
Some of the most fascinating structures in San Francisco are those that were never built. "Unbuilt San Francisco," part of the 10th annual Architecture and the City Festival, takes a look at some of these imaginative structures.
Japanese students affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami attend a community and housing class offered through the Tomodachi Summer 2013 SoftBank Leadership Program at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Maryly Snow's Roll-Up House in the Oakland hills, part of this year's East Bay Home Tours, uses garage-style doors as movable walls.
The Environmental Design Archives has received a generous gift from the estate of architect Kijnji Imada. The Design Archives and the Environmental Design Library also were each the recipients of substantial gifts from the estate of Richard Vignolo.
Sunset Magazine recently profiled Sibella Kraus in its August 2013 issue, highlighting the birth of the locavore movement in the Bay Area, which began with Kraus' Tasting of Summer Produce dinners.
Katie Hafner, a Bay Area journalist who was a San Francisco based New York Times reporter has written a memoir "Mother Daughter Me".