CityScape: As a New World Design Capital, San Diego Could Benefit from a Chief Design Officer SD and Tijuana completed their yearlong run as World Design Capital 2024 and SD design professionals hope that our WDC legacy will include a chief design officer.

San Diego needs a City Architect in the Mayor’s Office to make sure good architecture and urban design are part of the planning, permitting and approval process as a development proposals or city capital improvements go through the city pipeline.

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Sim Van der Ryn Obituary (1935 - 2024) - Petaluma, CA - San Francisco Chronicle View Sim Van der Ryn's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

RIP architect Sim Van Der Ryn, pioneer of sustainable design, former UC prof and former CA state architect.

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CityScape: Design for Museum of Art's West Wing Is 'Powerful Architecture' in Historic Context Foster + Partners' design is powerful architecture within a historical context, and unlike contemporary museum designs by architects such as Gehry, Calatrava and Hadid, this one is muted rather than l...

San Diego Museum of Art in historical Balboa Park
proposes modernist intervention designed by Lord Norman Foster. Here is my CityScape coverage, including a link to the museum’s animated video. Yes? No? Maybe?

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