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HOME 2024 – What’s in Store for Our Bi-National World Design Capital?

April 29, 2022 By admin

In 2024, San Diego and Tijuana will co-host design enthusiasts from around the world who come to see the first bi-national region to be selected as a World Design Capital®. They will see graphic, industrial, architectural, artistic and other design projects that help define our region. Billing this historic event as ‘Designing Transborder Futures,’ the […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: design, HOME 2024, San Diego, Tijuana, World Design Capital

The Botanical Building in Balboa Park – Makeover Edition!

January 19, 2022 By admin

Iconic San Diego structure will soon be restored to its original condition…plus a few improvements By Sandra Gramley, AIA, LEED NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, principal at Platt/Whitelaw Architects, Inc.  Restoration is underway on the Botanical Building in Balboa Park! If you’ve been following our news site, you know that we’ve written about this building before…and […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Balboa Park, Bertram Goodhue, Botanical Building, Carleton Winslow, City of San Diego, Forever Balboa Park, Moreton Bay Fig tree, Restoration, San Diego, Sandra Gramley

PWA Project Profile: Park de la Cruz Neighborhood Park & Therapeutic Recreation Services

August 26, 2021 By admin

By Sandra Gramley, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C Civic projects are the crux of what we do. Designing Park de la Cruz Neighborhood Park & Therapeutic Recreation Services (TRS) in City Heights was especially rewarding for us because we were truly designing for universal use. The intention of our client, the City of San Diego, […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Accessibility, City Heights, City of San Diego, Governor Gavin Newsom, Park de la Cruz, renovation, San Diego, Sandra Gramley, Schmidt Design Group, Stantec, TRS facility

San Diego History: Formative Architects and Architecture

June 16, 2021 By admin

Calling all architecture enthusiasts! Want to cement your savvy-San Diegan status? Dazzle friends with interesting cocktail party conversation? Become a riveting tour guide for your out-of-town guests? We’ve put together an overview of some of historic San Diego architects (some household names, some not), who designed notable places in San Diego. Feel free to bookmark […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Architects, Aztec Center at SDSU, Cal Western School of Law, Charles Quayle, Citizens Coordinate for Century 3 (C-3), Clairemont Library, Coronado Bridge, County Administration Center, Darlington House in La Jolla, Del Mar Castle, Edward Quayle, Ellen Browning Scripps, Esther Scott, Fifth Avenue Design Center in Hillcrest, Francis Parker School, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaslamp, Geisel Library, George W. Marston House, HIstoric, History, Horton Plaza Park, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, irst Church of Christ Scientist on Second Avenue, Irving Gill, Junipero Serra Museum, La Jolla High School, La Jolla Public Library, La Jolla Recreation Center, La Jolla Women’s Club, La Valencia Hotel, Lilian J. Rice, Lloyd Ruocco, Louis Kahn, Louis Sullivan, Luis Barragan, Mission Bay Aquatic Center, Morley Field Tennis Club, Muir College at UCSD, National Register of Historic Places, North Park Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Pearl Hotel, Quayle Brothers, Rancho Santa Fe Town Center, Richard Requa, Robert Moser, Robert Platt, Salk Institute, Samuel L. Fox building, San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Trust & Savings building, Sim Bruce Richards, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, useum of Contemporary Art San Diego – La Jolla, William Pereira, William Templeton Johnson, ZLAC rowing club

Unique Design Considerations for Temporary Homeless Shelters

October 9, 2020 By admin

By Sandra Gramley, AIA, LEED ap BD+C & Keiko Newton Our moderate climate and high cost of housing result in San Diego grappling with a large homelessness problem. A 2020 count found nearly 5,000 people experiencing homelessness in the City of San Diego. Platt/Whitelaw has been helping both the City of San Diego and the […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Alpha Project, Community, homeless shelter, Platt/Whitelaw Architects, project, San Diego, San Diego Housing Commission, Sandra Gramley, Veterans Village

Gramley SDBJ Interview

November 8, 2018 By admin

Where does San Diego rank as far as certified, sustainable buildings? Platt/Whitelaw Architects’ Principal Sandy Gramley was recently interviewed by Ray Huard at San Diego Business Journal about the state of sustainable design in San Diego. According to the article, in a recent study by commercial real estate services firm CBRE and Maastricht University in […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: California Green Building Standards Code, green buildings, Platt/Whitelaw Architects, San Diego, San Diego Business Journal, Sandy Gramley, sustainable

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