tumbling into the sea pt. 2

with our first 70 degree day at the coast in two weeks, it was time to hit the beach. i took some pictures of the fisheries building that's being abandoned due to erosion issues. the only way to get a good shot of this building is by wading out into the ocean (or hiring a helicopter), but i took this one from the cliff just outside my office, looking north:

the loss of the fisheries buildings probably won't cause any grief among preservationists, given their bland 1960's architecture:

c'mon noaa, let's try to be a bit more creative with the replacement buildings, especially considering their location.

will any other buildings suffer the fate of fisheries? there are several others close to the water on the sio campus, including the munk building in the top left of the next photo:

however you can see the cliff goes away in the above image, and there's a seawall from here to about another half mile to the south. buildings come right up to the seawall. to the south of this image is the pier and sio administration building; the latter fronts the marine biology building designed by irving gill. had to take this shot from an angle due to the sun:

there are no less than three plaques indicating the historical significance of the building, plus this explanatory sign showing it as the first building on the scripps campus:

further south is the new robert paine scripps conference center, under construction:

it sits about 30 feet above the beach, from where this shot was taken:

the center looks pretty cool in the renderings on the
jaynes companies developer site. this one is from the support scripps site:

hopefully these buildings will be around for a while. speaking of which, i wonder what will become of the space after the buildings there are demolished? this could be a fine viewpoint for the public, but i'm guessing it will be fenced off like the cliffs outside my office.