Updated post from Opensea with SUTRO TOWER

 

The collective whole, the home in us all

LEAN construction principles

Submitted for consideration for article about LEAN construction processes and techniques...

City life

Mexico City view

Painted view looking to the south west from the 21st floor of the Torre Diana building, where the AT&T Foundry is located.

The pointed top building is by LBR + A, the tallest in Mexico City.  It sits triangular in plan and features two perpendicular concrete elevations and one glass facade of the hypotenuse of the triangle.  https://www.archdaily.com/office/lbr-a

The BBVA building in the middle features a distinctive fuschia and bright yellow exterior spiral staircase element, and designed by Ricardo Legoretta. 

Water tower and purple stalked Pride of Madeira plants

Painted view of Shenzhen new tower

Shenzhen Tower with an unusual profile pointed tip top 

Sliver tower on 58th Street Manhattan

Southern Edge of Central Park, Manhattan

Chrysler building in late March

Tokyo Sky Tree, the tower and the features illustrated...

Tokyo Skytree 東京スカイツリー,)))  is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower located in Sumida, Tokyo.   It  reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world after Burj (829.8 m/2,722 ft).
You can ascend the tower by high speed elevators and reach two observation levels shown in the illustration.  The wait in line can be quite long, so reservations online are highly recommended.   Once you do reach the upper branches of the tree, the views are spectacular, and Mount Fuji looks larger than ever before!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Skytree

Tokyo Sky Tree, single frame view

The story about the Tokyo Sky Tree is very interesting, especially in view of the recent articles about architects and towers reaching higher and higher each year...

Here is a view of my illustration right after the organic growth of solar leaves sprout...

Tokyo SkyTree, Tokyo, Japan, including the leaf version

From the gallery level of the Tokyo Sky Tree in Oshiage, Tokyo, looking down on the shadow cast to the eastern edge of Tokyo

An amazing experience looking down from the sky tree to the urban fabric of Edo below...

A napkin sketch that goes around the world...

 

A napkin sketch created for Art Gensler for use in an event held at CCA this week, the sketch was created by hand, and then scanned for digital use in printing on napkins...

Oakland Urban Field Notes

Oakland Urban Field Notes, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Color draft folded version of the four beautiful buildings in downtown Oakland, hand-drawn illustrations

Oakland Bank Building, Comerica, Bank of America, 1907

Oakland Bank Building, Comerica, Bank of America, 1907, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

...a night time drawing view of the top of the tower, Bank of Oakland building on Broadway, downtown Oakland, CA...

View of Tokyo sky tree from Asakusa

View of Tokyo sky tree from Asakusa, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

A painted view from the top floor of the tourist center in Asakusa...

Seattle and the space needle

I was in Seattle for two days for meetings.

...what must have been a magical moment in 1962, when the Space Needle opened and the first visitors took in the views from the top, painted with adobe ideas on ipad...

Summit of Mount Diablo, California

The summit of Mount Diablo sits at elevation 3,864 feet (1,178 m), the beacon tower was constructed in 1939-42 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, here we see a painterly view of the tower from the promenade level, looking south...painted using art studio on digital tablet...