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A selection of the best built environment designs in this large American city on the west coast of the country.
Design: HNTB architects. Back in 2006, commissioned architects for what was the new Candlestick Park. The eventual stadium location was 40 miles away. Recently the LEED gold certified Levi’s Stadium hosted 75,000 fans and 100 million plus viewers at home for Super Bowl 50.
SFMOMA’s 225,000-square-foot Snøhetta-designed expansion represents a transformation of the museum as a whole.
Design: Feldman Architecture. The unconventional renovation of Fitty Wun transformed this Cole Valley home to reflect the playful personalities of the clients, a couple with three active young boys and a “work hard, play hard” approach to life.
Design: Terry & Terry Architecture. Comprised of two floating volumes, the addition formally designates the bedroom to the west and the main (common) space to the east. The two wings gradually diverge from the original structure to generate a glass-clad fissure in between.
Design: Studio VARA. A research scientist with an eye for detail approached Studio VARA with a modest vision and a couple of basic practical needs: First, transform a 1908 Noe Valley cottage– with a history of subpar alterations – into a cohesive modern dwelling.
1864 Greenwich, Modern Property Development in Cow Hollow, San Francisco, West America, by M-PROJECTS is defined by bespoke design, exquisite architecture and unparalleled attention to detail.
Design: Rafael Viñoly, architect with OLIN Landscape Architects. Proposal to convert an ageing shopping centre in California’s Silicon Valley into a vast development featuring the world’s largest roof garden. The building would be located on a 50-acre (20 hectare) site, with a 30-acre community park and nature preserve.
Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has been hired by The John Buck Company and Golub & Company, a 50/50 joint real estate development venture, for the design of San Francisco’s latest Class A office tower.
Heatherwick Studio is thrilled to be working on this exciting project for Google and the community of Mountainview, California. This is an opportunity to not only create a new home for the world’s most innovative company.
Location: Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, Santa Cruz County, California, USA: Aptos Beach remodel, a unique collaboration of ideas from the home owner, Seacliff Construction and Design, and architect Tim Doudna.
Design: Foster + Partners / Heller Manus Architects. In a joint venture, TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, and Northwood Investors LLC, a leading privately-held global real estate investment firm, announce the selection of Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects as architects for the approximately 2 million sqft mixed-use development in San Francisco.
Located on one of the most scenic waterfront lots in Sausalito, Barrel House Tavern occupies 5,000 sqft on Bridgeway Avenue. CCS Architecture receives a IIDA Northern California Chapter Honor Award for this building. With 140 seats, the restaurant features an enormous Carrera marble bar, a cozy lounge, wood fired pizza oven, and waterfront seating with breathtaking views of the Bay and San Francisco beyond.
New York-based architectural design firm SO – IL announces the groundbreaking on March 1, 2014 for the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, California, USA. Designed in a design-build partnership with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Whiting-Turner.
How do you expand an L-shaped Eichler with the challenge of extending a long dark entry? Klopf Architecture’s solution, to design a light filled atrium in the hallway to open up the bedroom expansion with green plants, sky lights and a glass wall. Not to mention the thoughtfulness of a blind door with wood siding similar to the rest of the home.
The Golden State Warriors released an updated design of its proposed sports and entertainment pavilion on the San Francisco waterfront. Today, the site is a dilapidated 13-acre pier that’s falling into the Bay.
CCS recently completed a total renovation to the restaurant, bar and lobby at the Grand Hyatt on Union Square in San Francisco. The restaurant, OneUP, has been nominated for the Hotel & Property Category in the International Design & Architecture Awards.
de Young Memorial Museum & California Palace of the Legion of Honor merged in 1972 to become The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.