Randolph Ruiz
@aaaarchitecture.bsky.social
Architect, educator(SEIU 1021), casual cyclist in San Francisco & Santa Monica. Need a building? I can help http://aaaarch.com Auto-free since ‘04
It’s partially a matte painting
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It’s partially a matte painting
Some Architecture at today’s CicLAvia. Santa Monica and Vermont B Line station by Ellerbe Becket/Mehrdad Yazdani; Koening Eisenberg housing project at same location; Danziger Studio by Fran Gehry; and Paramount Film and Tape Archive by Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones.
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Some Architecture at today’s CicLAvia. Santa Monica and Vermont B Line station by Ellerbe Becket/Mehrdad Yazdani; Koening Eisenberg housing project at same location; Danziger Studio by Fran Gehry; and Paramount Film and Tape Archive by Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones.
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75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
75% of VMT is from trips longer than 10 miles. California needs to rapidly expand electrified regional and intercity rail to meet our climate goals. We need commitments today, not vague promises and hydrogen pilots, and real reform to speed up the delivery of rail projects.
-What’s your pug’s name?
-Bodhi
-Ah, the enlightenment of the Buddha?
-No, from Point Break
-Of course
-Bodhi
-Ah, the enlightenment of the Buddha?
-No, from Point Break
-Of course
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
-What’s your pug’s name?
-Bodhi
-Ah, the enlightenment of the Buddha?
-No, from Point Break
-Of course
-Bodhi
-Ah, the enlightenment of the Buddha?
-No, from Point Break
-Of course
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Rounding Out LA's Holy Trinity of Future Rail
YouTube video by nandert
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November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...
chud atlantis
Hello everyone, sorry to go so long without posting something. I caught covid in August and it's taken me months to start feeling relatively back to normal. I am still struggling with fatigue and some...
mcmansionhell.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...
It’s good to think about how we could rebuild the suburbs into something better
oh wow i don't recall doing this... but apparently at one point i put together a little study of how to get a euro perimeter block by single developer in seattle w/ our ridiculous regs (max 2 single stair conditions per lot, so would need to do lot division)
150 homes in 5 stories. huge courtyard
150 homes in 5 stories. huge courtyard
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It’s good to think about how we could rebuild the suburbs into something better
Bus crimes
This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
Police Arrest Man After HSR Bus Joy Ride
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus driver pulled into the McNab Bus Terminal and exited the vehicle for a short break.During this time, an a...
hamiltonpolice.on.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Bus crimes
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I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)
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When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
My trip is in the 11th “inning” if you know what I mean.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
My trip is in the 11th “inning” if you know what I mean.
So is there a game or something?
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
So is there a game or something?
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"What, you don't want a mess of freeway ramps vomited out over Westchester?"
If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)
If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"What, you don't want a mess of freeway ramps vomited out over Westchester?"
If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)
If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)
Happy KC streetcar day
October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Happy KC streetcar day
Every investment we make in transit is undermined by actions like this
LA is building a new $1.5 billion freeway into LAX.
The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away
The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away
Air traffic control
The LAX-pressway must be stopped
www.torched.la
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Every investment we make in transit is undermined by actions like this
Oh boy. A new ethics case study for my professional practice course
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Oh boy. A new ethics case study for my professional practice course
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Important conversation. Pleased to be a part of it. #publicart #sculpture #fountain #SanFrancisco #beauty #Urbanism+
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Important conversation. Pleased to be a part of it. #publicart #sculpture #fountain #SanFrancisco #beauty #Urbanism+
So far LADOT seems to be a conspicuous no show at today’s CicLAvia
October 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
So far LADOT seems to be a conspicuous no show at today’s CicLAvia
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This is my SB 79 rezoning map for Berkeley based on nearest pedestrian access points, any % of a lot in range being eligible per SB 79's texts. Its going to be more like a Middle Housing bonus than even mid-rises, really.
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is my SB 79 rezoning map for Berkeley based on nearest pedestrian access points, any % of a lot in range being eligible per SB 79's texts. Its going to be more like a Middle Housing bonus than even mid-rises, really.
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This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.
The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.
For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.
For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.
Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.
Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.
Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.
Pretty sure a few of these pixels represent me
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Pretty sure a few of these pixels represent me
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The SB 125 Task Force is putting together its final report TOMORROW, but they are in danger of leaving out important project delivery reforms and a permanent solution to transit's perpetual funding crisis. Speak out for lower costs and more funding here: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
Keep CA Transit Moving: Demand Operating Funding and Reform
Right now, the state of California is finalizing recommendations that promise to fundamentally transform transit construction and operations in our state. The SB 125 Task Force has been meeting since ...
actionnetwork.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The SB 125 Task Force is putting together its final report TOMORROW, but they are in danger of leaving out important project delivery reforms and a permanent solution to transit's perpetual funding crisis. Speak out for lower costs and more funding here: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...