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Architects: Roberto Benito
- Area: 1160 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: De Stefano, Industrias Saladillo, Marca Tersuave, Marcelo Cavallo, Patagonia Flooring, +2
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House GC / Roberto Benito
"Zucktown, USA": Will Facebook Design Your Future City?
“Do people love tech companies so much that they would live inside them?” This is the question posed by The New York Times in an article reflecting on Facebook’s plans for Willow Village, a 59-acre urban district located at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters in San Francisco, California.
New Images of MAD's "Spaceship" Lucas Museum Released as Construction Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, has broken ground in Los Angeles, California. Founded by “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, and standing at the gateway to the city’s Exposition Park, the scheme is envisioned as a “futuristic spaceship” landing on the site’s natural environment.
The building’s interior has been designed as an expansive, open cave, flooded with natural light from skylights above. At least $400 million worth of art will be housed in the museum, including over 10,000 paintings, illustrations and movie memorabilia. The first floor and roof will be designated as public areas for visitors to exercise, relax, and “directly experience nature in the urban environment."
Salesforce Tower / Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
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Architects: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
- Area: 130000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: ASC Steel, Benson Industries, Campolonghi, Cricursa, Guardian Glass, +2
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Professionals: WSP Group, BKF Engineers, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Aon, +7
HASSELL + MVRDV's Proposal to Improve the Bay Area's Resilience in the Event of a Disaster
Following recent natural disasters including the Northern California wildfires, the HASSELL + team have been inspired to reimagine the San Francisco Bay Area as a vibrant community hub, equipped to provide temporary facilities in an emergency. As part of the competition Resilient by Design, the ten teams were asked to provide solutions for the waterfront through site-specific conceptual design and collaborative research projects.
Studio Gang Reveals Concept Designs for California College of the Arts Campus
Studio Gang has revealed concept designs for their campus master plan for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Currently split between facilities in San Francisco and Oakland, the new unified campus will bring together the school’s various art and design programs into one “vibrant indoor-outdoor environment.”
The design concepts aims to become a “highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices,” arranging programs into upper and lower ground levels to encourage interaction and cross-departmental osmosis.
From Affordable Housing to Climate Change, San Francisco Is a Microcosm of Global Urban Challenges
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "John King on San Francisco, Oakland, and the Challenge of Affordable Housing."
John King has covered the urban design beat for the San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years now. That’s long enough, in other words, to have written about a handful of economic booms and subsequent busts. But the Bay Area is a unique beast. No other region in the country has been as thoroughly transformed by the digital revolution. And it’s a transformation that continues to this day. Shortly before the New Year, I spoke to King about the fate of San Francisco, the Oakland renaissance, and his 4-month long fellowship in Washington, DC.
Diamond Heights Renovation / Michael Hennessey Architecture
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Architects: Michael Hennessey Architecture
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Brendan Waters Construction
Remember House / Edmonds + Lee Architects
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Architects: Edmonds + Lee Architects
- Area: 4000 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Dinesen, Boffi, Minotti
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Professionals: Thuilot Associates, GC
Seacliff House / Michael C.F. Chan & Associates
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Architects: Michael C.F. Chan & Associates
- Area: 5676 ft²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: Samuel Cabot Incorporated, Samuel Cabot Incorporated
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Professionals: SWA Group, Ish Jhamb & Associates, Michael C.F. Chan & Associates
Twitter Skybridge / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
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Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- Area: 400 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Boca Flasher, Dynamic Isolation Systems, Luminii, Stile, THK, +1
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Professionals: Niteo, WSP, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, Murphy Burr Curry
Airbnb Office - 999 Brannan / Airbnb Environments
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Architects: Airbnb Environments
- Area: 14000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Andreu World, TON, Architectural Lighting Works, Herman Miller, ICF, +1
wHY Unveils $38 Million San Francisco Asian Art Museum Addition
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has unveiled plans for a $38 million renovation and addition project that will transform the institution’s exhibition and educational programs while reconnecting the building to its Civic Center location. Designed by architect Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY, the project consists of a new 13,000-square-foot exhibition Pavilion and Art Terrace clad in a rusticated gray terracotta facade that echoes the design language of the original beaux arts building.
Resilient by Design Announces Ten Winners Set to Re-Imagine The Bay Area
From a pool of over fifty submissions, Resilient by Design have chosen ten winning teams to collaborate with engineers, climate change experts, designers, architects and community members to imagine a better future for The Bay Area in the face of potentially devastating climate change. The winning teams AECOM, BIG, Bionic, TLS, Field Operations, HASSELL, Mithun, Base Landscape, SCAPE and Gensler will spend the next year on a combination of collaborative research projects and site-specific conceptual design solutions.
Apple's Steve Jobs Theater Set to Take Center Stage Ahead of New Product Launch
Ahead of the official launch of the Steve Jobs Theater, a 1000-capacity auditorium at the heart of the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, California, new details about its design and construction have been revealed. According to Bloomberg, the entrance to the venue stands beneath “a silver disc,” whose supporting—and structural—glazed panels lend it the appearance of floating 20 feet above ground.
In Situ / Aidlin Darling Design
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Architects: Aidlin Darling Design
- Area: 6330 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Amico, Benjamin Moore, Boyd Lighting, Concreteworks, FilzFelt, +6
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Professionals: Harrison & Koellner LLC, JS Nolan & Associates, Plant Construction
Call for Entries - Student Design Competition: New San Francisco Federal Building Plaza
Continuing a legacy of outstanding public architecture, the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program seeks to commission our nation’s most talented designers and artists to design federal buildings of outstanding quality and value. These projects are to demonstrate the value of true integrated design that balances aesthetics, cost, constructability, and reliability; create environmentally responsible and superior workplaces for civilian federal employees; and give contemporary form and meaning to our democratic values.