Important Reminder:The City Guide app will be sunsetting on December 15, 2024, with the web version to follow in early 2025. Please visit our FAQ to learn more or to download our Swarm app.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: This bold, contemporary, yet warm maritime project embraces the new, but hints at the old in what one jury member called, “dynamic design, engaging angles and incredible sightlines.”
2202 4th Ave (btwn Ivy & Juniper St), San Diego, CA
American Restaurant · Park West · 56 tips and reviews
San Diego Architectural Foundation: Banker’s Hill Restaurant’s greatest merit is the fact that its simple elegance exemplifies the idea of “the transformation from the ugly duckling to the beautiful swan", a jury member noted.
124 S Mission Rd (btwn Fig & Alvarado St), Fallbrook, CA
Library · 6 tips and reviews
San Diego Architectural Foundation: As one fan commented “The new Fallbrook library is just wonderful; and the design celebrates the commitment this community has made to the creation of a cultural hub for learning.”
San Diego Architectural Foundation: Described by one juror as "an apartment building that offers its’ inhabitants a true Southern California experience" the Centre Street Lofts is a triumphant example of urban infill without compromise.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: They felt strongly that Craft & Commerce - this accessible, adaptive re-use project in Little Italy, had been carefully designed and masterfully executed to create a truly exceptional experience.
Law School · Central San Diego · 7 tips and reviews
San Diego Architectural Foundation: The Landscape Architecture found around and within the Thomas Jefferson School of Law is in pitch perfect harmony with its new East Village campus.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: A private, non-descript parking lot has been transformed into a community gathering space that includes an edible garden, urban orchard, and an outdoor classroom for community events.
8300 Station Village Ln (at Camino del Este), San Diego, CA
Hiking Trail · Mission Valley East · 2 tips and reviews
San Diego Architectural Foundation: A simple budget, with simple architectural solutions, results in complex relationships between the built environments and natural surroundings.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: This gentle dipping and rising creates a "symbiotic relationship" between its sweeping design and the plains surrounding it. The jury found the bridge "graceful and sensitive".
Historic and Protected Site · East Village · 1 tip
San Diego Architectural Foundation: The Jury agreed that this award for recognition is less about the building and more about how the storefront improvements will help to revitalize the neighborhood and activate the sidewalk.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: Add one part delicious coffee, one part spirited owner-developer, toss in some street furniture, dog biscuits and water bowls, hula-hoops and a bubble machine.
San Diego Architectural Foundation: The Challenged Athletes Foundation is transcending its original intent to become both an inspiration to those who work and visit the building, as well as an enhancement to its surroundings.
Business Service · Central San Diego · 6 tips and reviews
San Diego Architectural Foundation: The interior spaces are open and engaging, the materials are interesting and the sensitive incorporation of landscape in an urban context is extraordinary.