{"id":783,"date":"2009-09-05T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=783"},"modified":"2009-09-05T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T16:16:10","slug":"american-vacation-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"American Vacation: San Francisco for the wedding of Zachary and Dera-Jill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week in San Francisco begins with oyster shucking up at Hog Island Oyster Company.
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\nBrutalist sculpture and the Ferry Building<\/p>\n


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\nThis sculpture could have also been a wind turbine?<\/p>\n


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\nIn Berkeley: First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1911 – This Bernard Maybeck building was less impressive in person I have to say. I had built it up in my mind too much from the old photos. It has not worn very well and seems to have undergone some insensitive repairs. It was still very good to see it.<\/p>\n


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\nBerkeley has some fine examples of wood form in-situ concrete construction like this one. The formwork creates a woodgrain impression in horizontal bands.<\/p>\n


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\nBuena Vista Park<\/p>\n


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\nPalace of fine Arts in the distance (also Bernard Maybeck – 1915).<\/p>\n


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\nOn the Southeast corner of the Presidio — looks like a country road in the middle of the city.<\/p>\n


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\nNew good architecture.<\/p>\n


\nI love the way these trees follow the form of the wind.<\/p>\n


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\nPicnic on the Panhandle.<\/p>\n


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The week in San Francisco begins with oyster shucking up at Hog Island Oyster Company. Brutalist sculpture and the Ferry Building This sculpture could have also been a wind turbine? In Berkeley: First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1911 – This Bernard Maybeck building was less impressive in person I have to say. I had built … Continue reading “American Vacation: San Francisco for the wedding of Zachary and Dera-Jill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}