idea: reclaim balboa 2015

April 12, 2013 by dbrds

Over the past 12 months I have invited a solid group of local designers into the DBRDS office for random Friday afternoon design dialogs. For full disclosure, I often entice this group of very busy designers into the our studio by offering a ‘tasting of sorts’, sometimes with beer, other times with whiskey, & so on. Either way, my intent is always to spark an interesting dialog for ideas in San Diego. What generally happens is we all get fired […]

Categories: design • Tags: Balboa Park, Balboa Stadium, Craig Howard, David McCullough, DBRDS, Design, El Prado, Howard Blackson, James Brown, Master Plan, Plaza de Panama, San Diego, TEDxAFC, United States, UrbDeZine, Vicki Estrada

Altair

August 17, 2012 by dbrds

Following the unanimous approval of our Altair project by the La Jolla Community Group, City of San Diego & the California Coastal Commission in early 2011, the owner’s of the property have spent considerable time on establishing a sales strategy for this property which has been in their family for many years.  Re-engaging with Real Estate Agent Kevin Dougherty to manage the sale of the property was their first move, followed by re-engaging DBRDS (aka ‘funkitecture studio’ in our ‘explorative […]

Categories: design • Tags: California, City of San Diego, David McCullough, DBRDS, Kevin Dougherty, La Jolla, San Diego, United States

DBRDS news

January 23, 2012 by dbrds

We are happy to announce that as of last week DBRDS Co-Founder Pauly De Bartolo has been officially named to the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s 2012 Board of Directors. After working endless hours & making great friendships in last year’s Orchids & Onions Program, Pauly is excited to get more involved in this community joining the experienced team from SDAF. Other new members include Ivana Vinski from RKTEQU Architects, Jenny Duck from RJC Architects & Kelly Dixon from MAKE Fabrication […]

Categories: construction, design • Tags: Board of Directors, David McCullough, Ivana Vinski, Jenny Duck, Kelly Dixon, Leslee Schaffer, Residential Remodel, San Diego Architectural Foundation, South Park, Suzanne Clemmer

in the office…Mr. David McCullough, discussing design with espresso.

December 8, 2011 by dbrds

Categories: fashion, photography • Tags: David McCullough, DBRDS, MLASD

the real David McCullough…

January 31, 2011 by dbrds

Last week, I posted a blog about our Altair project, which towards the end thanked the design team. In doing so, the magic of WordPress has begun to automatically generate links throughout this post…one of them being to our great friend David McCullough, or so I thought. Finding out from his wife Catherine that this link was not about ‘our buddy Dave’, but rather about David McCullough, a Historian, Lecturer & two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient - we set ourselves thinking about “well who is […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: David McCullough, Pecha Kucha, Pulitzer Prize, San Diego, Wordpress

final approval for Altair

January 28, 2011 by dbrds

Through our sister blog ‘funkitimes‘ we have been explaining the entitlement process for our multi-family condominium project called Altair - located on the bluffs of Windansea Beach in San Diego, CA. This project was initially designed in 2008 & submitted to the City of San Diego in 2009. For a project such as this which sits directly along the California coastline, the final phase of approval (even after the City of San Diego approval) is to go through a review process by […]

Categories: design • Tags: California, California Coastal Commission, City of San Diego, condominium approval, David McCullough, San Diego