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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Kayak House Mission Creek Park“This is the best building in the neighborhood,” smiled a visiting architecture critic, and she may be right: The kayak storage hut near the west end of Mission Creek Park shines amid the formula-driven stodginess of too much of Mission Bay. Imagine a graceful tent open at both ends, the long sides arcing up and in until the ribs slide past each other, tepee-like, one side cloaked in translucent blue plastic and the other in wooden slats. Nestled beneath Interstate 280, Kayak House is the most lyrical shed you’ll ever see. It also delivers a moral: The public infrastructure around us need never be mundane. Kayak House Mission Creek Park |Architect: MKThink | Style: Form, not function | Size: 28 feet | Date built: |
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/23/BARC17O1A8.DTL#ixzz1UU8oBhJD









