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Number of homeless kids in San Francisco, California, waiting for shelter ahead of Christmas: 363
Rotterdam's MVRDV is one of four architecture firms in the “collaborative design cohort” designing different parts of Mission Rock, a new neighborhood in San...
In this interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky, Stanley Saitowitz discusses coming to America from his native South Africa, studying at Berkeley, getting excited when his architecture succeeds in finding its own logic and starts to form itself, working with the earth and grid, the differences...
Office vacancy rate in San Francisco, California, at the end of the second quarter 2023: 31.6%
A faceted facade and lush green wall make this extension to an electrical substation a good neighbor in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. The architects at TEF Design answered a few questions about the project.
Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands is the first feature-length documentary film made by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The film follows Rael San Fratello’s experiments with 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture.
Although San Diego recently surpassed San Francisco as the least affordable metro housing market in the United States, the City by the Bay has long been notorious for the expense of buying or renting a home. In turn, the Edwin M. Lee Apartments, providing housing for formerly homeless veterans...
The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of the 2021 AIASF Design Awards. The awards were announced during a virtual ceremony held on the last day of June.
Reduction of per-unit costs to build 146 apartments for formerly homeless people in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa)...
London's Design Museum has named the "Teeter-Totter Wall," designed by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with Colectivo Chopeke, as the Beazley Design of the Year 2020.
Antonio Virga has delivered, in the historic center of Cahors, the “Grand Palais,” a 7-theater cinema with a capacity of 1,051 spectators that is part of a master redevelopment plan for the Place Bessières, now dedicated to pedestrians.
Three functions intertwine in this adaptive reuse of an old industrial building in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA) area, placing an art gallery and artist studio on the ground floor, and a residence upstairs. Dumican Mosey Architects answered a few questions about the project.
A 28-acre parking lot is being transformed by Tishman Speyer and the San Francisco Giants into Mission Rock, a mixed-use neighborhood across the water from the Giants' Oracle Park. Phase 1 features buildings designed by Henning Larsen, MVRDV, Studio Gang, and WORKac.
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello of Rael San Fratello have turned a small portion of the US-Mexico border into a literal playground with the installation of pink teeter totters that allow children — and adults — on both sides of the wall to play together.
Nearly a dozen years in the making, Salesforce Tower and its companion Transit Center opened in August. While the tower can boast of being the tallest in San Francisco, the latter is like a horizontal tower; spanning four blocks and literally traversing multiple streets, it is also capped by a...
Projects by Steven Holl Architects and Adjaye Associates recently broke ground in Houston and San Antonio, respectively.
Synthesis Design + Architecture and IBM Watson Analytics have collaborated to merge data analytics, parametric modelling, and digital fabrication to create Data Moiré, a large scale interior feature wall recently completed for the IBM Watson Experience Center in San Francisco, California.
Fougeron Architecture's design of 400 Grove, an apartment building in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood, groups its 34 residences about a central courtyard, or mews. The porosity of the project's massing...
Humanitarianism – i.e. activities of support and benevolence amongst individuals – has at its core the belief that mankind is somehow united; that there is something that men and women, independent of gender, religion, race, age or nationality, living across the globe have in common....
Four months after George Lucas ditched plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, concept designs by Ma Yansong for sites in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been unveiled.
SFMOMA’s leadership worked closely with Snøhetta to design the new museum as an outward- looking and engaging gathering space.
This project houses a growing graphic/product design office within an existing brick building located in the Jackson square historic district.
A local developer asked Kennerly Architecture and Planning to design three new condominiums on a formerly empty lot that once housed San Francisco’s original Mission Dolores.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopens on May 14th in its expanded home designed by Snøhetta. Watch the building's three-year construction in a one-minute time-lapse film from EarthCam.
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.
The Linda Pace Foundation has unveiled plans for its new building designed by David Adjaye for a site along San Pedro Creek in San Antonio, Texas.
The primary objective for this tiny cafe in the heart of downtown San Francisco was to bring epicurean level coffee at a rate and speed to meet the Financial District’s demands while simultaneously revitalizing a stretch of sidewalk that has been fallow for over twenty years.
As part of Milano Design Week 2015, the Cosentino Group commissioned Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners to design an installation completely made from the company's Dekton® surfaces.
This project is as a minimalist "open-ended" event space for an avid maker-client and his creative partners to experiment and ideate.
This mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes, restaurants and shops continues the repair of the neighborhood fabric damaged by the removal of the Central Freeway.
The Presidio Trust has announced that James Corner Field Operations has been selected from among five finalists to design thirteen acres of new parkland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Our design for two new blocks of affordable family housing at Hunters View is part of the first phase of San Francisco’s ambitious HOPE SF program, a plan to revitalize the worst of San Francisco’s crime-ridden and forgotten low-income neighborhoods.