Posts Tagged ‘interior’
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
I don’t know, there’s not much you can do with an older aircraft design like the Boeing 737. Anyway, this is it, your new “Sky Interior.”
See the scalloping by the windows? And the bins, they’re new. And they use LED lights to mimic the blue of the sky. It can also do the warm glow of sunrise.
O.K., Boeing.
Fly AirBerlin:
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The saving grace for this airplane is that it’s signif. lighter than the Airbus 320. That will have to do until Big B redoes the 737.
All the deets:
“New interior options for the 737NG in 2010 included the 787-style Boeing Sky Interior. Designed using Boeing’s new cabin concepts, the Sky Interior features sculpted sidewalls and redesigned window housings, along with increased headroom and LED mood lighting. Larger pivot-bins similar to those on the 777 and 787 have more luggage space than prior designs. The Sky Interior is also designed to improve cabin noise levels by 2-4 dB. The first 737 equipped with the Boeing Sky Interior was delivered to Flydubai in the fourth quarter of 2010. TUIFly and Continental Airlines have also taken delivery of Sky Interiors.”
Tags: 2011, 737, 737ng, a320, airberlin, airbus, bay area, boeing, california, flight attendants, interior, jet, lighting, new, ng, San Francisco, sky
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
Tags: 120mm, 2011, 400x, 500cm, amanda, baratta, bay area, beautiful, book, booths, california, chairs, chrome, Coca Cola, Coca-Colas, Coke, cola, comic, Comic Books, cushion, day, decor, film, format, gal, harris, hasselblad, hot, interior, light, medium, mikey, mirrors, natural, nettie, north beach, paint, painted walls, patio, pepperta, photographic, photos, provia, R., red, restaurant, rose, salt, San Francisco, sandwich, sauce, shop, slide, tables, time, tobasco, view, wOMAN
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
I don’t know, numerous people have told me that the people behind the Save Stow Lake website/group/social movement have been paid off by the long-time tenant of the place, but I don’t have any evidence of that except for the monomaniacal focus the people behind the group manifest.
I’ve seen a lot of NIMBY / homeowner / historical groups in my day, but these people take the cake.
Could it be parody, or performance art? Maybe somebody wants to tarnish ALL historical groups? I can’t tell…
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Anyway, have at it, see if you can tell from their latest missive. Enjoy:
Save the Stow Lake Boathouse Coalition
It’s not over yet!
The lease has not yet been approved by the Board of Supervisors and there are many reasons it should not be approved.
Supervisor Eric Mar sold out thousands of his constituents and began fast tracking thedeeply flawed lease to a New Mexico based souvenir chain with no boating experienceNINE days BEFORE the Rec & Park Commission voted to approve it. In spite of overwhelming opposition from the community and a lease that gives the New Mexico chain a discount, is full full of inaccuracies and embedded with high hidden costs to the taxpayers, Mar is sponsoring this lease. WHY?
Contact Supervisor Eric Mar [Redacted]
Phil Ginsburg, Rec & Park General Manager, says “every dollar counts” and that Rec & Park has a huge deficit, which is why he lays off gardeners, rec directors for our kids… but on Dec. 2nd, Rec & Park refused the New Mexico chain’s offer to pay an extra $175k guaranteed rent each year! Clearly Rec & Park staff Phil Ginsburg & Nick Kinsey, failed to negotiate the best terms available to San Franciscans who are facing a huge budget deficit and our giving business and our boathouse to an out-of-state company.
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
[UPDATE: Per Sarah Ballard, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at San Francisco Recreation and Parks, "no formal action had been taken" by the Planning Department as to landmarking the inside, the outside or any side of the Stow Lake Boathouse. Apparently, this process would have to be initiated at a hearing and that hasn't happened yet. Apparently, Planning staff regards the information they've just received about Stow Lake as being merely a letter from a constituent, something that doesn't necessarily need a reply. And apparently, all of Golden Gate Park could at some point become an "Historic District," so maybe there's some confusion over that. We'll see how this all shakes out...]
[UPDATE II: An [alleged, see Comments] area millionaire feels it’s her right to make up stuff and post it to the web – see her comments in the Comments. She’s good at making and spending money, and she’s into historic preservation, evidenced by her spending up to seven figures on one house just for the pleasure, but she’s not good at making cohesive arguments. One wonders why she herself doesn’t just kick in six figures for the boathouse the way that “evil,” “out of state” corporation has already volunteered to do. One wonders….]
The latest salvo in the battle over the Boathouse at Stow Lake has done been fired. Check it, from the webpages of SaveStowLake.com:
“11/3/10 Update: The formal nomination for the Stow Lake Boathouse to be designated as a local landmark has been made.* In the months to come it will be reviewed by SF Planning Department Preservation staff and the Historic Preservation Commission. The nomination is for landmark designation of BOTH the interior and the exterior of the boathouse.”
Landmark status, here we come?
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Of course, pretty much anybody can raise the idea of nominating anything for anything, right? In that sense, this gambit is similar to gang founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize back in the day.
And landmark status can be tough to get, right? Oh well.
Anyway, this will be just more grist for the mill in the seemingly endless process to get the Boathouse off of a month-to-month lease, something that’s been costing San Francisco beaucoup bucks for years.
Speaking of which, there’ll be a couple of meetings concerning the Boathouse coming up. Appears as if the people at SaveStowLake.com don’t want to tell you about tonight’s get-together (something to do with alleged improper notice) but it’s your choice:
First Meeting:
Date: Wednesday November 3, 2010
Time: 7PM
Location: Hall of Flowers (County Fair Building)
Second Meeting:
Date: Monday November 8, 2010
Time: 1PM
Location: Hall of Flowers (County Fair Building)
On It Goes…
*I’ll note the use of passive voice here. My understanding is that one of these people below would be needed to get any landmarking process started. Don’t see anything about this on today’s agenda anyway. And isn’t there a movement afoot to landmark the entire Golden Gate Park, as opposed to doing it piecemeal? Mmmm.
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SEAT 1 Historic Architect
ALAN MARTINEZ
Commissioner |
512 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-626-9379 (W)
415-626-9389 (Fax)
awmartinez@earthlink.net |
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SEAT 2 Historic Architect
ANDREW WOLFRAM,
AIA, LEED® AP
Commissioner |
Perkins + Will
185 Berry Street
Lobby One, Suite 5100
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-546-2914 (W)
415-856-3001 (Fax)
andrew.wolfram@perkinswill.com |
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SEAT 3 Architectural Historian
CHARLES EDWIN CHASE, AIA
President |
Architectural Resource Group
Pier 9, Embarcadero, Suite 109
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-421-1680 (W)
415-421-0127 (Fax)
c.chase@argsf.com |
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SEAT 4 Historian
JAMES M. BUCKLEY, Ph. D.
Commissioner |
1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-786-2885 (W)
415-681-4542 (H)
jmbuckley9@comcast.net |
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SEAT 5 Preservation Professional
COURTNEY DAMKROGER
Vice President |
2626 Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-923-0920 (H)
cdamkroger@hotmail.com |
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SEAT 6 General Contractor
KARL HASZ
Commissioner |
1650 Mission Street, Suit 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
karlhasz@gmail.com |
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SEAT 7 At Large
DIANE MATSUDA
Commissioner |
John Burton Foundation
235 Montgomery Street, Suite 1142
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-693-1321 (Direct Line)
415-348-0011 (W)
415-348-0099 (Fax)
diane@johnburtonfoundation.org |
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
This is the scene at the Safeway on 7th and Cabrillo. Doesn’t the entrance look like an air traffic control tower?
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(Appears as if the windows are cinder blocks, else the place could make a nice in-law apartment, right? A set of stairs or an elevator and you’d be all set.)
I don’t know, maybe the NIMBYs of the Inner Richmond demanded the funky design, or maybe Safeway did it that way thinking it was doing us a favor.
No matter, the NIMBY’s of the East Bay (they’re called Stakeholders* over there, for some reason) seem to consider our Cabrillo Safeway something of a paragon, what with its “state-of-the-art Lifestyle Interior” ‘n stuff.
Now, for some reason, the longest waiting time I’ve ever experienced at a Costco seems to be about the average waiting time at this particular store, don’t know why.
But don’t leave us, Safeway #2646 (the way that Albertsons done.) We still love you no matter how goofy those meddlesome homeowners associations made you look.
If Safeway works on these unannounced inspection violations, it’ll be fine:
019 (CFR) Inadequate/Inaccessible handwashing facilities & supplies
020 (CFR) Improper hot/cold holding temperatures
033 (CFR) Foods not separated or protected
041 (CFR) Foods improperly labeled or misrepresented
042 (CFR) Non Food Contact Surface Unclean
054 (CFR) Floors, Walls, Ceilings Improperly constructed, in disrepair, not clean
056 (CFR) Permit/Inspection Not Posted
062 (CFR) Other – (Specify in report)
That was from a year ago, tho. I’m sure they’ve righted the ship by now.
We Can Only Hope…
*A taste of what Safeway Inc. has to deal with in the 510, after the jump.
(more…)
Tags: 2010, 2646, 735, 7th, aircraft control, architecture, ave, avenue, bay area, buidling, cabrillo, california, district, golden gate park, grocery, inner, interior, lifestyle, Line, long, nimbys, richmond, safeway, San Francisco, stakeholders, store, tower, yelp
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
If you ever want to feel suddenly transported away from the City, you should head on up to Medical Center Way (aka Upper Service Road) and then venture into the spooky Interior Park Belt.
It’s just up from where Jerry Brown raises money and just down the hill from where the old SF-89C Nike missile control center used to be, up on Mount Sutro.
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Mind the poison oak.
If you search the Flickr this arresting photo is the first result – but of course putting Interior Park Belt in quote marks narrows things down considerably.
Speaking of Flickr, be on the lookout for Flickers.
See you out there…
Tags: belt, bird, flicker, green, interior, interior park belt, mount, park, San Francisco, sutro, svc, trees, UC, ucsf, university of california, upper, upper service, upper service road, woodpecker
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
All you need to know about the Yelp-rated lighthouse at Point Bonita is right here.
Did the lighthouse keeper’s wife really tie up the kids on a leash when they played outside to keep them from falling into the ocean? That’s the story, anyway.
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Looks like that house might get sprayed with salt water sometimes.
See you there!
Tags: bridge, children, county, daughter, department, Family, federal, golden gate, headlands, hostel, interior, keeper, leash, light house, lighthouse, marin, National Park Service, nps, nps.org, ocean, one way, pacific, point bonita, pt bonita, San Francisco, sausalito. conzelman, tour, visit
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
This was the scene today down at UCSF Mission Bay where the Secretary of the Interior got an earful about how San Francisco doesn’t want offshore oil drilling anytime soon. Poor Interior Secretary Ken Salazar got an earful:
“Our state is saying clearly to you today, no,” Sen. Barbara Boxer told Salazar at the opening of the hearing at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus. The California Democrat said the state’s coastline is a huge economic asset “just as it is.”
Logistics, that’s what the protesters had going for them today. You couldn’t miss all the furries, like this seal for example. Click to expand:
Or this polar bear, played by nine-month-old Kai Savage, assisted by Miyo Sakashita of Oakland. “23 DAYS TO SAVE ME”:
This is the what you could see on the long walk to the protest area. A passer-by ID’ed these animal’s as “shark, dolphin, whale, orca” in rapid-fire succession. Right, one of those anyway.
Dude was selling American Apparel T-shirts for just $5. What a country!
The only people not wearing shirts were selling shirts. Go figure:
The Sec-Int was prepared for all sorts of shenanigans. For example, “full body costumes” were not allowed inside, officially.
Only Time Will Tell what the Interior Department is planning.
Tags: barbara, barbara boxer, barbara lee, bears, boxer, congress, Continental Shelf, cosplay, costumes, draft, drilling, federal, Foundation, furries, garamendi, gas, Governor, grace napolitano, hearings, interior, jackie speier, jackie Spier, ken, kenneth, lt., lynn, madrina, medical, mission bay, OCS, off-shore, offshore, oil, orca, oregon, outer, pdp, petroleum, plan, polar, refiniery, representative, salazar, san franscisco, seals, secretary, Senator, sierra club, surfrider, ucsf, university of california, whales, woolsey
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
This is how it goes on the streets of San Francisco these days – when you’re not confronted with giant TVs illuminating the sidewalks at night, you’ll see giant Obamas being used as an interior decor theme.
Did this home dweller paint an inspiring image of O right onto the dining room wall in a grid of one foot squares? Signs point to maybe. [See comments section.] Something like this would be a perfect complement to your Obama-themed wardrobe, anyway.
Cappella Obama. It’s Barack, larger than Life. Click to expand.
Tags: barack, decor, design, giant, graphics, interior, mural, obama, painting, rastebator, raster, rasterbater, San Francisco, wall, western addition
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