Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm offers a model for the future with an eye to the past Nov 22, 2009
It s what the late architect Charles Moore called hanging a saddlebag on the house, as in his famous Sea Ranch colony in California. The new houses are built, as much as possible, on the sites of previous buildings or parking lots (the site was once a country inn), so as to leave the best farm soil untouched. (Boston Globe)
Cable car house by the sea last one standing Nov 9, 2009
Carville was both a residential neighborhood and a second-home community - a kind of Sea Ranch, except the houses were made of old cable cars. Among the residents and regular visitors to Carville were Jack London, Xavier Martinez, the artist, Gelett Burgess, the writer, and Anna Strunksy, a young intellectual the newspapers called "the girl socialist of San Francisco.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Oil tanker spills fuel into San Francisco Bay Oct 31, 2009
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who designed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C., Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Sonoma County's Sea Ranch and many other monuments and public spaces, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 93. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Search suspended for possible missing diver Oct 20, 2009
Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Brazier says a helicopter, a 47-foot motor life boat and a cutter responded to coast off the Sea Ranch area after an apparatus used to carry abalone was found in the water earlier Monday. The search was suspended around 7 p.m. Monday. (Fresno Bee -- State)
The Walk-Through: 33 Monte Vista Road, Orinda Sep 9, 2009
It reflects the humanistic approach to synthesizing site and design that he pioneered later in his practice, particularly in the Sea Ranch community in Sonoma County. Moore selected the 1. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
PLAN YOUR ESCAPE Apr 6, 2009
We liked the feature story on Sea Ranch, a Northern California coastal community built in the '60s that's considered a model for how things should be done. It would be nice if CL would offer more on the finances involved, especially as the target audience appears to be people looking to build, renovate or redecorate. (New York Post -- Business)
