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Presenting PXSTL at the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis 1 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Blaine Merker and Liz Ogbu represented their joint team as one of three finalists selected from a pool of more than 50 nominated designers and artists for PXSTL, a temporary project commissioned by St...
Adaptive Metropolis: User Generated Urbanism, A Symposium at UC Berkeley September 27-29, 2013 27 Jul 2013 | 08:00 am
Rebar is thrilled to announce Adaptive Metropolis: User-Generated Urbanism. This three-day symposium will take place September 27-29 at UC Berkeley in celebration of the Centennial of the Department o...
Kaleidoscape Lecture at the Berkeley Art Museum 25 Jul 2013 | 02:48 am
Plan symmetry emerges, even during installation. Photo by Matthew Passmore. [check out our previous post on this project] Doors 5 PM / Matthew Passmore 6 PM / Galleries open until 9 PM This Friday,...
Opening Celebration for Embarcadero Plazas! – Tuesday, July 23rd, 6-8pm 22 Jul 2013 | 03:42 am
[check out our previous post on the project] You are invited to the opening celebration of two “parklet” public access spaces on the Embarcadero, commissioned by the Port of San Francisco and San Fra...
Design Cycle: Urban Prototyping 16 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
Sunday, July 21 Brava Theater Center Join Matthew Passmore of Rebar and San Francisco’s Mission Bicycle Company in a tactile and conversational exploration of urban prototyping. Matthew will detail t...
Driverless cars will spawn office cubes in parking spaces, big box stores downtown 10 Jul 2013 | 12:04 pm
According to Harvard researchers, via the New York Times: Harvard University researchers note that as much as one-third of the land in some cities is devoted to parking spots. Some city planners expe...
Parkcycle Swarms Copenhagen, next stop Baku 4 Jul 2013 | 11:18 am
Rebar created the world’s first pedal-powered public park: the Parkcycle in 2007. On the occasion of Participate: Baku Public Art Festival 2013, Rebar has created a novel evolution of the piece: Park...
Pop-Up Plazas open on San Francisco’s Embarcadero 3 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
“Social Circles” at Pier 9-15 invite visitors to move their chairs. In preparation for the summer of America’s Cup races and final September matches, Rebar and San Francisco’s Exploratorium created t...
SOAK looks for a site, plus good news from Arup 28 Jun 2013 | 11:39 am
Do you get excited when you find a quarter under your seat cushion? That’s the feeling you get from talking to the engineers at ARUP when they analyze your design for a rainwater harvesting, solar pow...
All these lights 28 Jun 2013 | 11:15 am
The Grouch & Eligh show up the streets and spaces of the city we love (& work & play in) so well. Hello San Francisco, Hello East Bay. A nice visual shoutout to one of the world’s largest urban art in...
