What a riot! Either product design gone completely mad or some futurist trend I am not Getting; and isn’t the beauty (and true sustainability) of plumbing that you don’t have to plug it in? (Amazing what water pressure can do!) Will it really come to having to to reboot the toilet?
Streets Alive! Project - Call for Artists
The Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund recently funded artistic treatments ‘on 7 of utility boxes on the campus edge that reflect UC Berkeley’s actions and visions of sustainability.’ The project is a partnership with the Earth Island Institute to make 60 utility boxes in downtown Berkeley works of art. UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to submit design concepts for the 7 boxes on the campus edge by November 1. See the artist call at link provided for more details.
Source: ucberkeleyplanning
Affordable Housing Examples
Thoughtful article by John King from the SF Chronicle today about how SF designers focus on architecture makes a dramatic difference in affordable housing projects. The projects incorporate many of the features discussed in the literature and my own research.
Funky mid-century place that just sold in my hood… on the market for all of 3 days and sold over asking!
