Look at all that beautiful water! The spillway at the O’Shaughnessy Dam in action. Hetch Hetchy water & power system: - Water for 2.7 million, - 167 miles travelled, gravity fed. - 1.7 billion KWh/year of electricity generated annually. - cost to build: $2.3 billion in 2026 dollars. 14% of the annual budget for city & county of S.F. #hetchhetchyreservoir #hetchhetchyvalley #miwok #ahwahnecheeland #yosemitenationalpark #oshaughnessydam @mysfpuc #anthropocene #infrastructure #landscapelovers #designinspo

Metal quilts adorn the “back-of-house”: that side of the building where the transformers, fire pump, trash rooms and other necessary functions come to the fore. Standard profile corrugated panels are perforated where louvers occur, solid elsewhere. Every project has a back, so the question is how to handle it and make a good pedestrian experience. #larklanding Transbay Block-2E/ Lark Landing @mercyhousing @swinerton1888 #metalcladding #urbanarchitecture #affordablehousing #designinspᴏ #architecturelovers

Alien landscape: The great salt flats of Utah on a moonlit night. The ridges of salt in the honeycomb pattern are about 1-2 inches tall. How does this happen?? So beautiful. Den-SF day 3 #terminalbasin #bluemoon #surreallandscape #landscapelover #saltflats #topography #geometry #process #designinspo #moonshadow