Article

Familiarity Breeds Content? – Met Home’s Design 100 List

11/03/1992

Article

Authors:

Liz Lufkin

Published in:

San Francisco Chronicle , pp. Z6-Z7

References

Projects

Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless 1986 to 1990

Julian St. & Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in 1989; final interior painting in 1990

Client:

Housing for Independent People - Al DiLudovico, Executive Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Carl Lindberg, James Maguire, Eleni Coromvli, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Oliver and Company, with Center for Environmetal Structure as major specialty subcontractor

Project cost:

$1,700,000

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by clients and C.E.S. Layout by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings Direct Construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E

Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...

Articles

Sourcebook for the Nineties Design: 100 Ideas that are Warm, Livable and Affordable, too 01/04/1992

Publication, Article

Authors:

Dorothy Kalins

Published in:

Metropolitan Home, pp. 73

Publisher:

Meredith Corporation, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Public Events

Winner of Metropolitan Home award 01/04/1992

Award-Honor, Architectural Journal Award

Awarded by:

Metropolitan Home Journal, New York, NY, U.S.A. - the April 1992 issue features the Design 100 list

Metropolitan Home’s Design 100 List selected on No. 10 of the list the C.E.S. project “The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for Homeless”, built in San Jose.