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Posted on October 21 at 10:02 p.m.

If my memory serves me correctly, the blue roofs were not "tiles", but composition shingles. (just suggesting maybe the LA press release be weighed with reality before the indie presses fire up)

On Miramar’s Blue Shingles to Brighten Up Baja

Posted on September 23 at 12:32 p.m.

Great that there are people who recognize that the space relation that has been created on Chapala is not a function of height limits..that it has more to do with the blank wall created by inward oriented Paseo Nuevo....which is more destructive to the streetscape of Chapala than are the recent projects everyone seems so disturbed by. There are many other examples of 1980´s and 1990´s interventions that are below 40 feet, comply with the "el pueble viejo" spanish look, but have parking garages occupying the entire street level thus killing the pedestrian relation and human scale of the project. Changing the height limit is not the solution to diminished SB streetscapes.

On No on B Seconded

Posted on September 18 at 6:46 a.m.

I agree with the arquitect. We must decide, not just in SB, but all over the US, between density or sprawl. It is one or the other. Santa Barbara, as usual, is probably against both options...for being an "enlightened" west coast hamlet, I am always surprised by the dialogue generated here. It can be so purile and populist....and so offtrack. Thank you Brian, for your insight.

On New Height Limit Would Flatten City, Not Save It

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Posted on July 31 at 9:25 p.m.

Way to go Brian!!! That is really wonderful that you are doing this!!! THANK YOU

On B is for Building Height

Posted on May 4 at 5:36 p.m.

That "unique Santa Barbara style" could be interpreted in a not so nostalgic way too......as in La Entrada, Canary Hotel and Miramar. To me, THOSE have met with the genre......insofar as sitting vacant for long periods of time in large part due to the bureaucracy of SB. Is that what we want for the El Encanto now?

On El Encanto Renovation Morphs

Posted on March 30 at 6:29 p.m.

Mr Gilbert,

Are you from Texas?! It´s just that "Expand Airports: Save the Whales" sounds kind of like a Texas political platitude. I´m not against the expansion.....but billing anything to do with flying obese american about the continent as "green" just seems.....Texan. :-)

On Airport Changes

Posted on March 30 at 6:28 p.m.

The developers should sue the individual city council and architecture review board members to recoup losses that would not have been incurred had the approvals been given faster, and the lovely project come online b4 the crash.

Oh well......post-prosperity public sector sb will; I´m sure, come to realize that they are impotent without private investment.

On From Condomania to Default Doomsday

Posted on January 29 at 9:10 p.m.

I think the rendering is very California: chic and progressive.....like the avant garde bungalows designed in the 50´s by Craig Ellwood in Los Angeles...that juxtapose against the kitschy Chateau Marmont´s feux Normanism.

Does SB really need more red tile?! It is 2009 in case no one noticed!!

I say VIVA the minimalist design!! and beach access too!!

On First Look at Bacara Condos

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Posted on January 8 at 4:24 p.m.

haha awesome comment!

On Hey Bush, Read This

Posted on November 28 at 10:21 p.m.

Southern California has funky pockets.....conventional SB not being one of them. (grime zone included)

On Welcome to the Funk Zone

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