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5 Steps to Creating High-Performance Communities

As we become a planet of city-dwellers, planners and urban designers have an imperative to design communities that perform better than ever before. But what exactly does “performance” mean? Communities should have energy and water-saving systems, but at a high level there also needs to be a more holistic approach to creating a sense of place and connection, while at the same time being accessible to different demographics and vibrant all throughout the day. Here are five essential ingredients for designing a high-performance community.

wHY to Expand San Francisco's Asian Art Museum

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has announced major renovation and expansion plans by wHY Architecture. The practice is expected to design a new 12,000-square-foot exhibition pavilion, reconfigure the Museum’s existing galleries, and modernize its education and public programming spaces. Work will begin in 2017.

"The new pavilion will underscore San Francisco’s cultural diversity, create one of the nation’s premier exhibition spaces dedicated to Asian art, and increase the number of special exhibitions on view for visitors," says the Museum.

1180 Fourth Street / Mithun-Solomon + Kennerly Architecture and Planning

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Mixed Use Architecture, Apartments
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San Francisco, United States

Noe House / Studio VARA

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Houses
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San Francisco, United States

San Francisco 2016: Tenderloin System Update

Following on from the success of ‘Cambodia 2015’ (awarded 3rd Top Competition of 2015 by Bustler), Eleven is excited to announce their latest architecture and idea challenge: ‘San Francisco 2016 - Tenderloin System Update’.

For this challenge, we move to California, in the beautiful city of San Francisco. The city is the USA’s most sought after real estate location and its Bay Area is today leading the way for innovative technologies and new urban models for the future. However, San Francisco is also home to the Tenderloin, one of the most distressed and dangerous neighborhoods of the USA. 

SF Tower / HNTB Architecture

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Airport, Control Center
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San Francisco, United States
  • Architects: HNTB Architecture
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alucobond, ASC Steel, Construction Specialties

DREAMshop / INTERSTICE Architects

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Exhibition center, Adaptive reuse
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San Francisco, United States

20th St. / Mork-Ulnes Architects

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Houses, Renovation
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San Francisco, United States
  • Architects: Mork-Ulnes Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1620 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AlumaTherm, BlueStar, Brendan Ravenhill

This SOM Archive Video Offers a Look Back at the Early Days of 3D Visualization

Until recently, the only options for providing clients and the public with visualizations of what a prospective building would look like were almost exclusively hand drawn renderings, or scale models built by hand. Both of these practices are still in use today, but now there is a much wider range of options with 3D modeling software providing the bulk of renderings, the growing presence of 3D printing, and even video fly-throughs with special effects that rival the latest Hollywood action movie. This 16mm film created by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in 1984, and digitized by illustrator Peter Little, reminded us of what the early days of digital 3D modeling looked like.

Fitty Wun / Feldman Architecture

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Houses, Renovation
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San Francisco, United States

Telegraph Hill / Feldman Architecture

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Houses, Extension
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San Francisco, United States

Prototyping the Future

Digital design and fabrication have combined with ubiquitous computing and globalization to change the field of architecture. At California College of the Arts in San Francisco, faculty and students in the Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, and Master of Advanced Architectural Design programs team up with companies, agencies, and community groups to make architecture that addresses the challenges and opportunities of economic growth, climate change, and technological disruption.

Snøhetta's SFMOMA Expansion Nears Completion

Snøhetta's 10-story expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is nearing completion. As announced by SFMOMA, the "transformed" museum will reopen to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Its new 235,000-square-foot addition (that nearly tripled SFMOMA's gallery space) was designed by Snøhetta to "weave" into the city and connect "seamlessly" to the museum's existing 225,000-square-foot building designed by Mario Botta.

WIRED Looks at 8 Cities of the Future

WIRED Magazine has created a list of Eight Cities That Will Show You What The Future Will Look Like in the latest edition of their design issue. In the relatively short span of time that humans have been planning cities, more and more decisions have been made that have shaped the path of new technologies and methods that will make cities better. Such projects—like new streetlights, bicycle infrastructure, and traffic-sensitive museums—highlight some of these advances in the urban lifestyle.

"The cities of tomorrow might still self-assemble haltingly, but done right, the process won’t be accidental. A city shouldn’t just happen anymore. Every block, every building, every brick represents innumerable decisions. Decide well, and cities are magic," writes Wired author Adam Rogers. Read on after the break to see how 8 different cities from around the world are implementing innovative projects. 

PH Midtown / Fémur Arquitectura

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Institutional buildings, Office buildings
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San Francisco, Panama
  • Architects: Fémur Arquitectura
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  39000 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

PCH International Innovation Hub / ChrDAUER Architects

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Offices, Adaptive reuse
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San Francisco, United States
  • Architects: ChrDAUER Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2787 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  C.R. Laurence, Hansgrohe, Louis Poulsen, UniFor, Assa Abloy, +53
  • Professionals: Shen Milsom & Wilke, A.G.E. Consulting Inc., McMillan Media Systems, ChrDAUER Architects, Environmental Building Strategies, +7

Video: How Stanley Saitowitz Maximizes Freedom of Space

“These are methods to actually create the optimum amount of freedom for the occupant themselves to figure out how they want to use the space and live with the least […] architectural impediments, and the least […] predetermined idea of where things should go and what should happen where.”

In this interview with DDG | DM Development, Stanley Saitowitz discusses the latest Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects project, a residential building called 8 Octavia in San Francisco. Find out more about Saitowitz’s design principles and methods by watching the video above.

ValueAct Capital / Gould Evans

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Institutional buildings, Office buildings, Offices Interiors
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San Francisco, United States