East Village Stadium Concept – Logo Animation

March 28, 2012 by dbrds

In an effort to continually improve how we communicate our ideas & designs, we collaborated with Design Subcontracting Co. to create an animation that shows the evolution of our initial idea of the East Village Stadium concept. To show the simple transition from the Charger’s bolt logo into built form illustrates how we thought through this process & how this architecture is clearly a unique & dynamic way to represent this City through a built form. As always, this design […]

Categories: design, media • Tags: Animation, Chargers, DBRDS, McCullough Landscape Architecture, San Diego, Stadium Design

friday afternoons; they way they should be…at RAGLAN

March 23, 2012 by dbrds

Synopsis of an awesome Friday afternoon: With an invitation from Michael Soriano to check out his latest San Diego masterpiece (i’ll come back to this), Ivan & I headed over to Ocean Beach for a lunchtime pint. Meeting Michael & his co-hort, Detroit import, radical thinker, passionate speaker James Denton (who teamed with Michael on RAGLAN PUBLIC HOUSE) & Jim Gabriel (Principal Architect of Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells), what turned out to be a simple ‘pint over lunch’ turned into […]

Categories: design, photography • Tags: DBRDS, Hanna Gabriel Wells, Leslee Schaffer, McCullough Landscape Architecture, Michael Soriano, MLASD, Nathan Colkitt, New Zealand, PUBLIC Architecture, Raglan Public House, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation

DBRDS in today’s ‘The Architect’s Newspaper’

August 29, 2011 by dbrds

Following a phone call last week from The Architect’s Newspaper‘s West Coast Editor Sam Lubell, DBRDS was featured in today’s edition having been included in an article about the cities across California all reviewing new stadium proposals. The article while touching on the political situation of each proposal location, tries to focus more on the design as Sam specifically reached out to all the designers involved in these projects. Starting with Genslers proposal for the new Farmer’s Field in Los Angeles, Populous‘ bowl shaped design for the City […]

Categories: design, media • Tags: California, Counties, DBRDS, East Village Stadium, HNTB, Interior design, JRDV, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, McCullough Landscape Architecture, San Diego, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco, Santa Clara, United States, West Coast of the United States

DBRDS in today’s ‘San Diego Business Journal’

March 14, 2011 by dbrds

Last week, amongst the excitement of the East Village Stadium Masterplan concept we proposed, we also received a phone call from a very nice gentleman named Lou Hirsh from the San Diego Business Journal having heard about DBRDS through McCullough Landscape Architecture‘s President & CEO – Catherine McCullough. Mr. Hirsh was in the process of writing an article about local San Diego businesses that have gained projects overseas in order to work through the local economical challenges. Anyone who knows DBRDS, […]

Categories: design • Tags: Business and Economy, California, China, commercial design, DBRDS, Fushun, Kuatro Design, McCullough Landscape Architecture, Nanjing, San Diego, San Diego Business Journal