Encantada Gallery Gets a Storefront Makeover
City College designers vie for the best designed window. By ARMAND EMAMDJOMEH
Tag Archives: design
Dress Code: Hidden Gems-Isso
Mission Loc@l keeps an eye on fashion. A feature by SHALWAH EVANS
Parents to be Heard on School Assignment Redesign
Upcoming town halls will give parents a voice in the process.
Local Designers Team Up To Form Collective
New Valencia Street store opens featuring locally designed and restructured vintage clothing and jewelry.
Make a Statement
Shopping in the Mission is a quest for unique, eye-catching pieces you won’t see on every other person walking down Valencia. That’s not an easy task when everyone else is also looking to make a statement. If you’re starting to feel like originality is hopeless, head to The Mission Statement, a designer co-op on 18th and Bartlett, where no two...
Cesar Chavez Redesign Could Relocate Day Laborers
Are the Day Laborers headed for Bayshore? En Español
The Coolest Map Ever
Crime First Starting things off with the serious stuff: the man who was arrested last month after the sexual assault of a teenage girl in Garfield Park also faces charges from an earlier rape on a woman in the same area, the Chronicle reports. Meanwhile KGO reports that police also arrested a 56-year-old homeless man for alleged arson at an...
Biography of a Taco
Local architecture and design students set out to map the food shed of a nearby taco truck, following each ingredient from conception to waste.
24th Street BART Plaza Will Grow
A 2007 project report stated that “the plaza lacks basic infrastructure and amenities -- a stage, vendor stalls, seating and sufficient bus shelters -- to support healthy public life.”
SFMTA Pilot Offers Little Change in Tech Shuttle Map
When the SFMTA’s new pilot program to regulate tech shuttles starts in August, few will notice much change as the pilot program will shift the location of some stops but will keep close to the same number of stops operating in the Mission. According to a map of proposed stops released by SFMTA, the program will remove six existing tech shuttle stops from the neighborhood, but it...
Coolest Garage Ever on 25th Street
San Francisco Magazine has the scoop on an architectural gem between the Mission and Noe Valley. It’s a garage converted into a whimsical children’s play-space decked out with a fire pole, swing set and even a stained-glass window featuring a classic arcade game character. Here’s more detail: Faced with a side yard consisting of a cracked concrete slab, most city dwellers might...
Paxton Gate Design-Build Venture Forges Future As RareField
It’s a unique San Francisco paradox: Everyone knows where to go for taxidermied animals, amber-fossilized insects, and general curiosities. But nobody seems to know that Paxton Gate also innovates and installs classy interiors and gardens. “Paxton Gate is such a strong brand,” explained lead designer Todd McCrea. “The more we got into it the more we realized that this is...
Mission Trump Bashing Goes Virtual
It’s no secret that the Mission is no fan of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (see also: gleeful smashing of Trump piñatas, Trump street art). Now the local frustration with Trump has arrived on the internet, where local maker Kelly Niland has created a spin-wheel of awful quotes attributed to the man. Niland you may remember from the Mission Realty Bingo cards...