A few schools

We went to visit far more inspiring, cheery schools yesterday (than the previous day). Out in the 'suburbs' of Hyderabad, mostly...about an hour away. The kids wear adorable uniforms, and there were exuberant murals all over.

Happenings in Hyderabad

The view from my hotel in Banjara Hills; a banyan tree at the Hyderabad Sailing Club where we ate paneer pakoras for lunch; a friendly looking goat outside of the Architecture for Humanity Rumi School we are here to work on. The funny thing about the goat is that one of our team members insisted we put a goat into our competition renderings, claiming goats were 'everywhere' in India. Turns out, there are indeed goats exactly where we placed them in the renderings, right in front of schools.

Urban Kayaking

A couple more urban kayak launches--at the Embarcadero ramp after Anton's talk at IDEO, and at the Berkeley Marina.

Models

Anton's beautiful working models came to visit this weekend from the office (Studio for Urban Projects)...

Sea Ranch

We stayed at a delightfully 70s cabin at Sea Ranch back in May. Right on the water! Mostly we cooked (a lot) with some breaks for a few walks to see the baby harbor seals, and visit some very old trees. The Sea Ranch airport is beautiful--those are the nicest hangers I've ever seen (above)...

Notes from the summer...

Watery kites at the Berkeley Marina, our first tomatoes (in their new home in the backyard, after being kicked off the roof), gorgeous cobbler (not by us) at a picnic, wild nasturtiums on our homegrown lettuce, and neat signage in LA

The rhino greenhouse. With structure,
storage, most of the concrete walls,
and some cisterns. Still missing: secondary structure, glazing, landscape, cable trellis.