San Francisco

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• Architects

  Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

• Location

  Golden Gate National Recreation Area, U.S. 101, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States

• Principal in Charge

  Marsha Maytum

• Project Architect

  Christine Van Wagenen

• Area

  70000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Bruce Damonte

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• Architects

  Edmonds + Lee Architects

• Location

  San Francisco, United States

• Area

  3000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Joe Fletcher

One year after the launch of Resilient by Design's Bay Area Challenge, led by TLS Landscape has presented the final nine design concepts. The Bay Area Challenge launched with a call to action to "bring together local residents, community organizations, public officials and local, national, and international experts to develop innovative solutions that will strengthen our region's resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding, and earthquakes." The idea formulated as a “blueprint for resilience” that can be replicated and utilized locally and globally. Other urban challenges will also be addressed, including housing, transport, health and economic disparity as a means of not just protecting the current regions, but strengthening them.

The elite, collaborative teams include world-renowned designers like BIG, Mithun and HASSELL+.

Read on for more about each of the final design concepts.

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• Architects

  Roberto Benito

• Location

  San Francisco, Argentina

• Site Area

  3740 m2

• Area

  1160.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Gonzalo Viramonte

“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.

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."

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• Architects

  Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

• Location

  San Francisco, CA, United States

• Lead Architects

  Cesar Pelli FAIA, RIBA, JIA. Fred W. Clarke FAIA, RIBA, JIA. Ed Dionne AIA

• Area

  130000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Tim Griffith, Vittoria Zupicich

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.

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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. 

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• Architects

  Michael Hennessey Architecture

• Location

  San Francisco, United States

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Joe Fletcher

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• Architects

  Edmonds + Lee Architects

• Location

  San Francisco, United States

• Lead Architects

  Robert Edmondsd, Vivian Lee

• Area

  4000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Joe Fletcher Photography

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• Architects

  Michael C.F. Chan & Associates

• Location

  San Francisco, United States

• Architect in Charge

  Michael C.F. Chan, Jeffrey Hua Shen

• Design Team

  Michael Chan, Jeffrey Shen, Ed Libe, Carlo Calabia, Fiona Jiang

• Area

  5676.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Paul Dyer

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• Architects

  Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

• Location

  San Francisco, CA, United States

• Area

  400.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Nic Lehoux

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• Architects

  Airbnb Environments

• Location

  999 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States

• Lead Architects

  Aaron Taylor Harvey, Rachael Harvey

• Architecture of Record

  WRNS Studio

• Area

  14000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Mariko Reed

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.

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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.

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