1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (493+ words) Architecture's swift change " highlighted by technological innovation " was a key reason why Tricia Esser stepped down as chief executive of the KTGY design powerhouse earlier this year. But retirement is no surrender. Esser knows it sounds a bit crazy, but…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (10+ words) Allan Barnes began his career capturing Detroit's vanishing architecture....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (170+ words) On April 17-19, the Startup Art Fair returns to the city with a lively fashion show and hotel rooms full of art. Want to go beyond the ordinary art-museum experience? Does appreciating art in a 1950s-style motor lodge sound more your…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (277+ words) A Palm Springs mid-century home once owned by the award-winning actress-comedian Lily Tomlin is on the market for $3. 895 million. The 4, 671-square-foot house, known as the "Lily Pad," sits on a half-acre in the Old Las Palmas neighborhood. Completed in 1952 and…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (515+ words) A historic Monrovia house once owned by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Upton Sinclair is on the market. Listed at just under $2 million, this neo-Mediterranean-style house " completed in 1923 " sits on nearly a third-acre lot. It spans 2, 667 square feet and has four…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1172+ words) There's a surreal serenity atop the world's longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, crowned by a thick blanket of fog more than 500 feet above the rippling tides off Yerba Buena Island's eastern shore. From here, the nearly 300, 000 daily commuters below who…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (625+ words) One person's castle is another person's " cave? "It's interesting finding the rhythms of a place," Dirksen says in an interview shared with Boullosa. "I grew up in Cloverdale (in Sonoma County), and even though the kids have never lived in…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (451+ words) Most folks know Frank Lloyd Wright as America's most influential architect. What's lesser known is he loved the movies, and Hollywood loved him. "Wright was a big fan of the movies. He really admired Walt Disney, and even gave his…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (283+ words) Winchester Mystery House historian Janan Boehmewill discuss parallels between Sarah Winchester's famed San Jose estate and her sister Isabel Merriman's Los Altos home at the Los Altos History Museum on Sept. 17, 5: 30-7 p. m. Boehme began leading tours of the Mystery House in…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago  (547+ words) If you had to name a quintessential Bay Area style of building, you might go with an elegant Victorian or a cute Arts and Crafts bungalow. You might pick something from the past such as Mission Santa Clara, or something…...