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A green, pedestrian-friendly vision for Downtown

On Saturday Berkeley citizens were given a taste of how their fair city might become quite a bit fairer when the people behind the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan (SOSIP) held an open house to present a number of possible scenarios to prettify the downtown area.
Not to be confused with the Downtown Area Plan [...]

UC drops plans for Toyo Ito-designed museum

UC Berkeley has abandoned its plan to construct a new $143m Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive downtown designed by “starchitect” Toyo Ito.
Read the full story in today’s Chronicle.
[Photo: Photo: Kuramochi / Jeanne Collins & Assoc.]