Plymouth, Devon, England
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Battery Street
Tintype San Francisco
Today the Lincoln Wharf Condominiums, the handsome structure on the North End's Commercial Street was once the Lincoln Power Station, a 1901 coal fired electric power plant built on the old Lincoln Wharf, responsible for providing power to the then new Boston Street Railway. The plant operated into the 1970's and by 1990 it was redeveloped, marking the first adaptive re-use of a power plant into housing in the country. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Hoy, Lincoln Wharf Condominiums, la hermosa estructura sobre la calle Commercial del North End, fue una vez la represa Lincoln Power Station, una planta de energía eléctrica a carbón de 1901, construida sobre el antiguo Lincoln Wharf, responsable de proporcionar energía al a quel entonces nuevo Boston Street Railway. La planta operó hasta la década de 1970 y en 1990 fue remodelada, marcando la primera reutilización adaptativa de una planta de energía en viviendas en el país. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
Levi's Plaza, San Francisco
landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin
1982
"laid out 1979-1982 - Lawrence Halprin and Associates
Intended to provide a daytime campus for lunching and relaxation, this park was dedicated to “the employees of Levi Strauss” in 1982. Conceived as separate but complementary landscapes, Halprin’s design includes two parks that are connected via a crosswalk across a two-lane street. A poured concrete plaza accented with red brick, known as the “hard” park, is enclosed by office buildings for Levi Strauss & Co. The plaza is furnished with benches, concrete planters, and a round pavilion, and features an elaborate water garden with a rough granite fountain at its center. The paving patterns of the “hard” park continue into the crosswalk, before opening onto the “soft” park, comprised of a pastoral lawn with soft grassy knolls, curvilinear paths, and a meandering artificial stream. Although Levi’s Plaza is situated along the heavily trafficked Embarcadero, it is quiet and calm, sheltered by the office buildings and a hedge along its eastern boundary."
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