Mid-Year 2025 Travel Review

Thought I’d change things up and do a mid-year travel review. Sometimes the end of year sneaks up and a larger year end review gets missed. In the first half of 2025 we visited Hawaii (twice), the Bay Area CA, Austin TX, and went on some local SoCal trips.

hawaii, travel, Mexico, Bay Area, san diego, TexasCarol ChinJune 24, 2025Travel, hawaill, mexico, Austin TX, Berkeley, san franciscoComment

2 Urban Landscapes in San Francisco

For the latest Bay Area visit, I decided to visit a couple of Lawrence Halprin urban landscape designs that I could walk to from the Embarcadero BART station.

Bay Area, landscape, Lawrence Halprin Carol ChinJune 10, 2025urban landscapes, lawrence halprin, san francisco, landscape architectureComment

Architecture Model Sightings

Do you like to view buildings and the architecture models that represent those very buildings?

modern, ossipoff, Bay Area, san francisco, hawaii, architecture model, Foster + Partners, pereiraCarol ChinMay 22, 2025architecture model, foster + partners, vladimir ossipoff, ibm buildingComment

3 in Berkeley, CA

There were a number of architectural highlights from the recent Bay Area visit. The following masterworks by Julia Morgan, John Galen Howard and Bernard Maybeck are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

architecture, Bay Area, campus architecture, spiritual places, hisoricCarol ChinApril 9, 2025julia morgan, bernard maybeck, Bay Area, architecture, berkeley, historic architectureComment

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