Born in California, Bruce Damonte opened his own studio in San Francisco in 2008. After helping out a friend by working as an assistant on a photo shoot, 31 year old Damonte decided to completely shift his career path and use the camera as a tool to express his creativity. Specializing in architectural photography, he travels extensively to work with practices from around the world. His work includes taking photos of projects that went on to win prestigious awards, including AIA Awards.
Bruce Damonte has been commissioned to photographically tell the stories of hundreds of design projects since BDP’s inception over ten years ago. While based in San Francisco, Bruce travels extensively in his quest to provide peerless imagery and customer service to the world’s best designers and architects.
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
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This mid-century modern home renovation in the Berkeley Hills features enhanced indoor-outdoor living, updated finishes, a structural upgrade, increased energy efficiency, and enhanced daylight.
When the owners purchased this 1970’s ranch home in Kentfield, Marin County, it was dark, dank, and in danger of sliding down a hill. The interior was dated and needed to be updated to modern standards.
The owners of this residential loft space in the South Beach section of downtown San Francisco, fell in love with the building’s industrial ‘bones’; concrete walls, wood ceilings, factory-style windows and exposed steel trusses
The Oakland Hills house was built originally in 1939, the house renovation aimed to update the property by creating a modern, spacious interior, without expanding its original footprint. The two-level house is perched on a hillside lot, overlooking Oakland and the San Francisco East Bay.
This new modern hillside home was designed in response to the needs of a growing family with two work-at-home parents and its steep site with magnificent bay and City views, all within the context of a quiet Sausalito neighborhood setting.
A research scientist with an eye for detail approached us 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.
Set on 100 acres in the Sierra Foothills, the Auburn House embodies the simple, casual and hardy spirit of a modern farmhouse. Through its orientation, sustainable systems and material palette, the home embodies the pastoral and inspiring landscape of lakes, blue oaks, manzanitas and grasses.
Architects: Schwartz and Architecture Project: Box on the Rock Project Team: Wyatt Arnold, Erik Bloom Location: Sonoma, California, USA Area 2000.0 ft2 Photography: Bruce Damonte Located in Sonoma Valley, California, Box on the Rock is a 2,000 sq ft private residence designed in 2015 by Schwartz and Architecture. With an economy of means, this simple form
Architects: DDG Project: XOCO 325 Penthouse Location: SoHo, New York City, NY, United States Area 70000.0 m2 Project Year 2016 Photography: Bruce Damonte, Robert Granoff Nestled in the heart of SoHo, XOCO 325 is a luxury condominium that sits on the site of a former Tootsie Roll chocolate factory. The ground-up new development has been designed,
This San Francisco beach house is a beautiful contemporary three-storey residence completed by Form4 Architecture. Designed for two artists this rear addition to a one-bedroom house symbolizes the architecture of linearity and sequence, where all of the rooms across the three-stories have a sight-line, progressively more expansive as one moves higher, overlooking a downward sloping garden and panoramas
Located in Marin County, Mill Valley House house was designed San Francisco-based Yamamar Design. From the architect: Two opposing roofs define public and private zones in this Marin County home for a filmmaker and painter couple and their 2 small children. We were inspired by architect Glenn Murcutt’s notion that a well designed home requires both ‘prospect’
Skyline House is a single-family house recently completed by Terry & Terry Architecture. This project is a rebuild of an existing post Fire-storm house. Situated high on the Eastbay mountain range over looking the city of Oakland …
