Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Article source: KMD Architects
The City and County of San Francisco embarked upon a rigorous building commission for a new administrative building for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) at 525 Golden Gate Avenue. Situated on the northwest corner of the Civic Center, the recently completed building acts as the defining northwest edge to the large “urban room” formed by the buildings of the Civic Center.
 Image Courtesy © Bruce Damonte
- Architects: KMD Architects
- Project: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters (SFPUC)
- Location: 525 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California 94102, USA
- Photography: Bruce Damonte
- Project Owner: City and County of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
- Joint Venture or Associate Architect: KMD/Stevens Joint Venture
- Project Completion Date: June, 2012
- Project Site: Previously Developed Land
- Project Type: Office – 100,001 or greater
- Building Gross Floor Area: 27,500 square feet
- Total project cost at time of completion, land excluded: $146,500,000.00
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Article source: Ball-Nogues Studio
The glass stair tower at the new housing project on 10th and Mission is an architectural gesture that is visible to both pedestrians and motorists for several blocks along Mission St. Veil, which hangs behind the glass curtain wall of the tower, elevates this architectural feature to the status of beacon in the City through the use of color.
 Image Courtesy © Scott Mayoral
- Architects: Ball-Nogues Studio
- Project: Veil – Stair Tower
- Location: San Francisco, USA
- Photography: Scott Mayora
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
Article source: NADAAA
Housing various skin-care and health products of Aesop, the space of the store is narrow and deep; the shot-gun organization is laid out asymmetrically with products framed in recycled boxes randomly stacked on one wall, the entire depth of the space.
The opposing wall is clad in cork–pure, seamless and unfettered by any intricacy. Using the strict repetitive organization of the Aesop bottle– a leitmotif of the brand– the random stacking of boxes acts to downplay the regimented nature of the brand.
 Image Courtesy © Juliana Sohn
- Architects: NADAAA
- Project: Aesop Fillmore Street
- Location: San Francisco, USA
- Photography: Juliana Sohn
- Principal in Charge: Dan Gallagher
- Design Principals: Nader Tehrani, Katherine Faulkner
- Project Manager: John Chow
- Project Team: Jonathan Palazzolo, Parke MacDowell
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Article source: Michael Hennessey Architecture
This project renovates an existing two unit, three story residence that was originally built in 1907 on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. The challenge of the project was determining the relationship of the fourth story and roof deck addition to the historic structure below. The resulting approach was to provide cement board panels at the addition creating a subtle material shift between new and old. The use of a consistent dark grey color visually unifies the addition with the existing form.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Article source: Fourgeron Architecture
Like many San Francisco homes, this one poorly integrated its many levels with each other and with its sloping topography and solar orientation. Reversing its reading, we recast the back of the house as its primary façade with a faceted, custom-built glass wall. Divided into three vertical panels that push in and out, this dynamic prism brings animating light and spectacular views to the communal living spaces, now placed at the rear. Bedrooms were flipped to the front.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Article source: Db Architect
An affordable community for working individuals and families, Fillmore Park brings 32 modern homes for first-time home buyers to the heart of San Francisco. Flats and townhouses with private patios ring a landscaped courtyard, creating a quiet neighborhood a block from the bustling Fillmore District.
 Image Courtesy Bruce Damonte
- Architects: Db Architect
- Project: Filmore Park
- Location: San Francisco, USA
- Client: MSPDI Turk, LLC
- Architect: David Baker + Partners
- Landscape Architect: Fletcher Studio
- Structural Engineer: Structural Design Engineers
- Electrical Engineer: Bhatia Associates
- Lighting Designer: Horton Lees Brogden
- Mechanical Engineer: Raymond Brooks Engineering
- Acoustical Engineer: Wilson Ihrig + Associates
- General Contractor: Cahill Contractors
- Civil Engineer: Telamon Engineering Consultants
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
Article source: Ted Pratt
Build a better pot sticker and the world will beat a path to your door. Such was the case this past weekend when Brandy Ho’s– the legendary Hunan Restaurant from San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood — opened its new, and instantly iconic, restaurant in the City’s Castro district with a memorable bash for a delicious crowd and an unending supply of Brandy Ho’s award-winning cuisine. The standing-room only crowd included San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Alex Randolph of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office, Anna Damiani from California Assemblyman Mark Leno’s Office, San Francisco Port Commissioner Rodney Ong, MUMC President Stephan H. Adams, Castro location Manager Jimmy Lam and architect Millard (Ted) Pratt whose firm, MTP Architects, designed the interiors.
 Image Courtesy MTP Architects
- Architects: MTP Architects
- Project: The Legendary Hunan Restaurant
- Location: North Beach, San Francisco
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Tags: North Beach, San Francisco
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Friday, August 17th, 2012
Article source: Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture
In San Francisco fashion 1098 Harrison has been past home to a church, disco, and print shop. Atlassian is proud to add software to the legacy. Situated in the heart of San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, Atlassian’s new workplace is more of an urban hub than the typical (albeit amusing) dot-com environment found in Silicon Valley. Having an international presence in the United States, Australia, and The Netherlands, Atlassian’s offices have been strategically located in dense urban areas. Atlassian’s industry leadership in enterprise software puts it in a category of growth and expansion during a time of economic recession; the need for new digs is the result of robust recruitment of a new generation of business software innovators.
 Exterior View  Axial View of Town Square and Wood Box Conference Room (more…)
Tags: CA, San Francisco
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Article source: Future Cities Lab
Exhibited at SFMOMA from 31 March to 29 July, 2012
Future Cities Lab’s HYDRAMAX Port Machines project proposes a radical rethinking of San Francisco’s urban waterfront post sea-level rise. The proposal renders the existing hard edges of the waterfront as new “soft systems” that would include aquatic parks, community gardens, wildlife refuges and aquaponic farms. A synthetic architecture is introduced that blurs the distinction between building, landscape, infrastructure and machine. Using thousands of sensors and motorized components, the massive urban scale robotic structure harvests rainwater and fog, while modulating air flow, solar exposure and intelligent building systems.
 HYDRAMAX: Port Machines
- Architect: Future Cities Lab
- Name of project: HYDRAMAX: Port Machines
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Design: Jason Kelly Johnson & Nataly Gattegno
- Project Manager: Ripon DeLeon; Project Interns: Gavin Johns, Cameron Eng
- Collaborative Sponsor: MIGA Motor Company (Dr. Mark Gummin)
- Video: Eddie Lee, Square Two Design
- Model Materials: Cast and thermoformed acrylic, custom printed circuit boards, Arduino based microcontrollers, infrared sensors, shape memory alloy motors (Courtesy of Miga Motor Company)
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Article source: Surface design, Inc.
This garden in San Francisco has dedicated areas for entertaining and children’s play, which are defined and navigated by an innovative arrangement of local and sustainable landscape materials. Cor-Ten steel boxes serve as retaining structures and planters, extending along the site’s perimeter and penetrating the surrounding wood fence. The garden is an abstracted allusion to the dramatic topography of the city itself.
 The site's steep slope creates a visual connection with the city beyond
- Architects: Surface design, Inc.
- Project: Liberty Hill Residence
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Project Type: Single Family Residence
- Software used: AutoCad, Photoshop, Sketchup, some Vectorworks
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