On the bus in to work this morning. Baran Studio, now officially operating in The OC.

See you next week Pilgrim.

I’m not so sure this is a ‘bombshell’ as the law has been around for years. But if you can just put me in touch with those developers I can help them get their SB-9 projects approved.

This project seems very serious. Maybe 3 years. Maybe 30 units. Could be around 20,000 sf or so more or less. Or maybe when I figure out that containers make no financial sense for housing (condos!) I won’t build with containers.

Remember, under the SB-684 trailer bill, existing units on multifamily-zoned property can be placed on a remainder lot that is subdivided from the new development. That remainder parcel does not count toward the 10-unit maximum for new units. In this project (completed prior to

Calls to stop density in the Palisades are a political maneuver that plays on the fears of people losing their single family zoning and neighborhood ‘character’ (code words for exclusion). They could instead be focused on the type and quality of construction to maintain safety,

In our work we look carefully at context (not just at how the house next door is decorated.) Context for us means a deeper dive into the the extended site. This includes infrastructure, politics, temporality, movement patterns, environmental conditions and currency. Often the

The bots are getting very insightful these days (and pretty slick with the immediate block) but I’d really like to know what Grant Hudson can offer on contextual architecture because it looks like a lot of posts on stock picks.

It turns out the Calvary isn’t coming.

Ideas for the White House Ballroom that are more contextual.

The word ballroom comes from the Latin ballare, meaning to dance—so, literally, a room for dancing. But which of these looks more like dancing? Honestly, they should drop the label and just call it the State Optics Theater. I doubt there’ll be much Tango happening in there—at

Things that keep me up at night #943. Garbage Architecture ❤️❤️❤️