Alameda Point Liminality. The former Naval Airbase in San Francisco is now home to everything from tech startups and movie soundstages to microbreweries and community housing.
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A study of scale, the large hangars remain, giving the site historical weight and a sense of place, but the human desire for scale is exposed in the tokenism of the planting, which sits in large but out-of-scale pots along former runways and taxiways.
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