San Diego, CA

In San Diego, one of the only major American cities with a downtown airport, locals are as accustomed to low-flying aircraft as they are to Spanish colonial architecture.

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Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is a stunning building that looks directly out to the sea. Architectural tourists flock to the site, which still functions as a working laboratory.

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San Diego’s main Mormon temple is an unusual building, but architect Aaron Anderson will take unusual over bland any day.

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Petco Park, home to the San Diego Padres.

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University Avenue is one of San Diego’s main thoroughfares and one that Anderson would like to see developed like Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.

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Many of the city’s best young architects meet and teach at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture.

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The San Diego Convention Center, which is sited on eleven acres along San Diego Bay, was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.

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The San Diego California Temple, conceived by architects William S. Lewis, Jr., Dennis Hyndman, and Shelly Hyndman, opened to the public in 1993.

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The Children’s Pool is a cement walkway that extends toward the sea, offering visitors a vantage point to observe harbor seals and ocean life.

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The Starlight Lounge, a restaurant and bar, was designed by Barbara Rourke and Jason St. John of Bells & Whistles.

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Las Cuatro Milpas Restaurant is a hometown favorite, located on Logan Avenue.

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The LInkery, located in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego, offers sustainably raised meats from local farms, cask ales and homemade, hand-spun ice cream.

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Spacecraft Gallery is a by-appointment contemporary art gallery on North Park Way.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, which has two locations in the city: one carries work created since 1950 and is located in downtown San Diego, and the other, MCASD in Downtown, features site-specific installations by artists such as Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra.

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