San Diego Historic Harbor-Front

This project offers a final chance to authentically connect the social and physical fabric of the city to the bay.

Positioned between an emerging necklace of bay-front amenities on the North Embarcadero and the barrier-like wall of tourist resources to the south, the site calls for a bold and engaging statement - not in terms of iconographic architecture, but in civic activity, community recreation, and physical engagement to the bay.

Two simple gestures achieve our original goals. The existing street system and familiar patterns of lot development are extended to the water's edge. Secondly, a great circular public boardwalk will offer strolling, pet walking, and jogging with unique views both up and down the bay and back to the city. This paseo, or "Arch Walk," also acts as a breakwater and engages additional amenities for residents and tourists alike such as a 6.5-acre central park, a downtown beach with children's play area and volleyball court, Tuna Harbor, and the G Street Mole amphitheatre with its floating stage