For the latest Bay Area visit, I decided to visit a couple of Lawrence Halprin urban landscape designs that I could walk to from the Embarcadero BART station.

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Architecture Model Sightings

Do you like to view buildings and the architecture models that represent those very buildings?

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3 in Berkeley, CA

There were a number of architectural highlights from the recent Bay Area visit. The following masterworks by Julia Morgan, John Galen Howard and Bernard Maybeck are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Architect Corner - TWBT Architects

This post is a sampling of projects by Tod Williams Billie Tsien (TWBT) Architects which I’ve had the pleasure to visit in different cities - a scientific research center, a college library, a college arts center, a church and a museum.

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