Though it is spartan, even strangely adorned with vehicular impedimenta, I find this space very beautiful. It’s the drill court at the Armory, an incongruous building at 14th and Mission in a city that seems to celebrate such architectural discord. The moorish castle-inspired building was originally built as a National Guard facility in 1914. It [...]
Categories: Livable City,The City
- Published:
- September 4, 2009 – 10:57 am
- Author:
- By Zac
In the literal, if not geographical, center of the city, Beaux Arts facades and dour gray buildings suggest an odd vanity in the otherwise homely Civic Center Plaza. I walked through the plaza back in February and was struck by the lifelessness in the landscape. Pollarded trees, like tumorous scarecrows, stood guard over the dismal [...]
Categories: Livable City,Omnivorous,The City
- Published:
- June 28, 2008 – 1:41 pm
- Author:
- By Zac