culture and architecture

We went back to the Mission to show our 1st guest the beautiful murals adorning the area walls. Most of those stunning murals are made, conceived and sponsored by the Precita Eyes Mural Art Association . Example below of a mural made last Saturday to...

A few weeks ago we had a lovely stroll around the AT&T Giants Stadium, the local base-ball team. We both have zero interest in this sport but the stadium and its surroundings are worth a visit. You cannot really see from the pictures but the size of the...

The de Young Museum (its History) This Museum, situated in the Golden Gate Park, has an extremelly original architecture conceived by Herzog & de Meuron architects. Furthermore its tower offers the most magnificent view of SF. The lovely gardens are from...

This article about Stanford is coming a bit late as I had already created an Album about it few weeks ago and I saw that lots of people went to look at it already. Sorry for the deja vu feeling, then, but I wanted to add a bit of explanation about the...

We started the day by a walk in a totally insignificant park except for the fact that it may have saved us from a lot of trouble. Indeed, I wanted to see the Extreme Surf Event in Half Moon Bay... the very same that was hit by severe waves, hurting some...

We "celebrated" two very nice anniversaries lately. The first one was the 100th Anniversary of the Geary Theatre, a SF landmark, located close to Union Square. The full theatre was open to the public allowing us to have a tour of the backstages. There...

For the last day of 2009 we went to Santa Rosa, 90mn drive up north. The aim of our trip was a visit to the The Charles M. Schulz Museum, the creator of my all-time idols, The Peanuts. Hence, I was able to share (sort of) a big hug and a giant cookie...

I visted this superb building on Tuesday and totally loved its architecture: " a dramatic skylight allows natural light into the building’s five-story central atrium, bridges connect floors across lightwells, and a grand staircase rises four stories beside...

This Monday we had been lucky enough to see this procession starting just 2 metres from our place...closer and they would have been in our bedroom. I had heard of this event but as I know nothing about it, I shamelessly copy/past the information I have...