CityScape: Tijuana, Mission Valley, Shine as Orchids & Onions Honor Region's Best Urban Design

CityScape: Tijuana, Mission Valley, shine as Orchids & Onions honor region's best urban design

Del Mar Heights School. (Photo courtesy of DLR Group) Fresh air is a rare commodity inside San Diego’s high-rises, where inoperable windowsand sealed interiors are standard for maximum control of heating, cooling and airtreatment. By contrast, the new 10-story EAT building in Tijuana, with operable windowsand open interiors that provide plenty of fresh air, is the best of this year’s crop ofOrchids & Onions, recently presented in Liberty Station…

San Diego’s best, and worst, architecture in 2025 revealed

San Diego’s unique architecture competition, Orchids and Onions, is back with a new batch of trophies for the region’s most inspiring projects — and the duds. Orchids and Onions, now in its 49th year, is the most popular local architect competition because it takes the rare step of pointing out bad work. (It’d be like if the Academy Awards handed out an Oscar for Worst Picture.) The San Diego Architectural Foundation’s event gave out 17 Orchids …