by Eero Lloyd Neutra on June 15, 2007
Occasionally high end architecture, especially in custom ocean front homes, falls into what an old acquaintance categorized as “more money than brains” design. The idea is that often people with money end up designing a home that they would never design nor build if there were fiscal limitations. And this lack of constrained creativity produces buildings that don’t quite ring true.
The Kiko Beach Front Residence tips lightly into this category and is currently under construction at 2649 Ocean Street. Designed by the obviously talented Wolfram Kalber of Wolf Design Build the Kiko Beach House is a functional looking four story that is wrapped in superfluous waves of stucco facades and oddly shaped accessories.
While the building maximizes the lot perfectly, the most interesting aspect is the way it interfaces with the beach out front. A wall separates the public beach from the private beach and then that private beach is again segmented from the swimming area with what looks like a glass enclosure matched on the wall of the pool with a translucent champagne glass like waterfall.
The home is nearing completion and while some could argue that its bombastic contemporary lines are over the top, no one would call it poorly executed, or for that matter ugly.
[Link: Wolf Design Build]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
Between May 29 and June 5 four dead dolphins have washed ashore on the beaches between Carlsbad State beach and the Oceanside Harbor. All of them with fatal bullet wounds.
“It’s a horrendous thing that happened,” said Mark Oswell, spokesman for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. “That someone would go out there and shoot four dolphins.”
According to the report it appears the dolphins were all shot on the same day with the same calibre gun. The story goes on to report that dolphins are usually killed by fishermen who are upset about the mammals stealing their catch. Sadly, the criminal fine is only $20,000 and not much jail time.
The NOAA is offering a $2,500 reward for anyone who has information on the dolphin deaths.
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
While excavating at an undisclosed new home construction site Carlsbad workers discovered what is being called the remains of a 100,000 year old Mastodon.
Tom Demere is the paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum. We’re the first people to ever see this specimen. And it hasn’t seen the light of day for at least 100,000 years. It kind of confirms our ideas about the ancient environments here in the coastal plain of Southern California. He says two complete tusks, an upper jaw fragment with three teeth, and vertebrae from one mastodon were found.
That is serious local status.
[Link: KPBS]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
TaylorMade-adidas recently cut 41 employees and more than half of those were from the Carlsbad office.
Scott Leightman, a company spokesman, said the layoffs were relatively minor for a company the size of TaylorMade-adidas, which has more than 1,400 employees worldwide.
According to golf industry watchers the industry is currently not growing. “TaylorMade-adidas appears to be properly cautious. The golf industry is not growing, said McAndrew, editor of Web Street Golf Report, and the company is being careful not to overextend itself.”
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
In our first poll we asked the readers of Carlsibadistan.com the following question: If we put a weekly poll up on the site would they answer it. The polling has ended and the results are as follows:
50% Would answer a weekly poll
50% Would NOT answer a weekly poll
Yes, it was a trick question. It appears that 100 percent of those voting will respond to a Carlsbadistan poll, however, they many not on future polls. Then again, only four people voted (including us).
We put a new poll up. It’s over in the right hand column and this week it’s about the Carlsbad Junk Antique shops that litter the village. Let us know how you feel. Vote often.
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
A while back, in Barring the Barrio, we mentioned that it seems like any time the people of Carlsbad decide they’d like to walk somewhere, that instead of building walkways, walls get built.
The Starbucks on the corner of Grand and Coast Highway is the most recent victim of this mentality. A silly little fence has been erected to keep people from walking from the Village Faire Shopping Center parking lot across a small strip of grass to Starbucks. A simple walkway with four steps and a handrail would have likely cost less, however, in went a wall. We wonder if this isn’t the sign of a deeper problem brewing at the Village Faire. . .
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
You leave the controls for a few days and all hell breaks lose. The Union Bank of California at 840 Carlsbad Village Drive was held up by an 18-year-old who claimed he was carrying explosives.
. . . shortly before 1 p.m. The man entered the bank wearing only a pair of board shorts and claimed he had an explosive device, a gelatin liquid in a canister, police said. . . The man told tellers he wanted all the money from the bank or he was going to “cause damage” to people inside, authorities said.
You’d think you might want to put on a little more of a disguise when you rob a bank. We guess not if you want to get caught. Maybe this bank robbery was just a cry for help.
Link: NBC Sandiego.com]
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
Maybe we should start golfing. Seems like all the business news in Carlsbad is balls deep. Check this:
Callaway Golf Co., the sports equipment-maker that sued a subsidiary of Deerfield-based Fortune Brands Inc. last year for infringing four of its golf ball patents, filed a second lawsuit against its rival, this time over five of its patents for clubs.
Balls and clubs. . . oh, yeah. One more thing: According to Forbes, Last Thursday Steven C. McCracken, the chief administrative officer, senior executive vice president and secretary of Callaway exercised 40,700 options at $16.56 then sold them for $18.60 for a nice $83,028.
[Link: Chicago Tribune]
by The Editors on June 13, 2007
The fans are helping ESPN.com and Sportcenter pick the top 32 athletes in the world and currently Carlsbad’s Shaun White is ranked number 12 between Dale Earnhardt Jr and Danica Patrick.
Shaun White. He doesn’t play a real sport? Well, there is more to life than football, baseball and basketball. The snowboarding/skateboarding whiz kid is a commercial success, an Olympic gold medalist and owner of the coolest nickname in sports, “The Flying Tomato.”
We thought he changed his nickname to “The Animal.” Hmmm.
[Link: ESPN]
by The Editors on June 13, 2007
Carlsbad’s Tony Hawk has pretty much thrown his name on anything that will pay him. But, aside from that, most of them have made sense. Even the helmet mounted video camera could somehow be tied back to skateboarding of a product that Tony would actually eat, drink, or play with. Now, Tony has handed over his name to Dynacraft bikes.
Tony Hawk bikes will be completely different than anything Dynacraft has distributed in the past,” said John Bisges, managing director at Dynacraft. “They will have higher end components, updated frames and the most cutting edge graphics ever.
Thank God for cutting edge graphics.
[Link: Bicycle Retailer]
The Kiko Beach Front Residence tips lightly into this category and is currently under construction at 2649 Ocean Street. Designed by the obviously talented Wolfram Kalber of Wolf Design Build the Kiko Beach House is a functional looking four story that is wrapped in superfluous waves of stucco facades and oddly shaped accessories.
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