Star architects in San Francisco

April 18, 2014

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Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta and his firm Legorreta and Legoretta have done an abundance of brash colorful buildings like this, the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center from 2006. No problem! The earthy depth is a welcome jolt to the institutional anonymity of the UCSF Mission Bay campus around it. (Note: Ricardo Legorreta, died in 2011. His son continues to lead the firm.)

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Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta and his firm Legorreta and Legoretta have done an abundance of brash colorful buildings like this, the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center from 2006. No problem! The earthy depth is a welcome jolt to the institutional anonymity of the UCSF Mission Bay campus around it. (Note: Ricardo Legorreta, died in 2011. His sonUbuntu's dream of a single Linux platform across all your devices has died, swiftly, following a single gunshot to the head. Holding the revolver: founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth.

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"I'm writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell," he wrote on the official Ubuntu blog Wednesday. "We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."

The decision came during a new-fiscal-year evaluation of Ubuntu's various projects. Unity – in its eighth version but without ever having made it to public release – didn't make the cut.

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