The Esherick Sea Cliff house itself is a flip plan, with living space on the top floor and bedrooms and a family room on the lower floor, with an entrance that leads right towards a grand staircase that became the central organizing element around which Edmonds + Lee began to operate
This Alamo Square house embodies San Francisco’s contemporary culture: modern yet enamored with the city’s rich history. The setting is Alamo Square Park, a city-owned park built in 1857 and known for its “Painted Ladies,” the row of Victorian homes captured on many postcards.
The corporate spirit of Splunk, the international data software company headquartered in San Francisco, is innovative, passionate, disruptive, open, and fun. A predictable, staid headquarters was out of the question.
The edgy office at 220 Sansome Street in San Francisco—home to advertising agency MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER—is a 7,000-square-foot testament to collaboration between client and designer. “I wanted to invent something I couldn’t think of,” explains John Matejczyk, the agency’s cofounder and creative director
Unity has emerged as the world’s leading software platform for universally accessible game development. Embodying the company’s democratized approach, Unity’s new San Francisco headquarters was designed as an open framework for building next generation gaming tools.
The Two-Way House embodies a multitude of conversations between ourselves and our clients to realize the marriage of San Francisco’s historic urban fabric with today’s modern needs/desires in a thoughtfully crafted home filled with daylight seamlessly connecting to the garden.
Vortex house combines familiar regular forms with more dynamic elements that suggest motion and spinning. The new walls are folded and pinched as necessary to make space, as if the entire surface of the new interior is made of a single sheet of folded paper.
At the core of GitHub technology is social collaboration, which was made physically evident in their 55,000 square foot headquarters. The three story office space includes a variety of work environments to accommodate different work styles and flexibility
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects Project: 50 Oakwood House Location: San Francisco, California, USA Photography: Jacob Elliott Photography Oakwood is a one block street between 18th and 19th in the Mission. A few steps from Valencia, it is a quiet residential precinct tucked away from this new center of San Francisco urban life. Oakwood
A huge amount of volume and light were freed from this compartmentalized 1970’s house. Situated in Noe Valley, San Francisco, the Douglass Park House has been renovated recently by Azevedo Design. The main living space is a long rectangle that stretches from a front deck overlooking cypresses to a two level patio with a view of
San Francisco-based Mark Brand Architecture was hired to rejuvenate a circa 1980 modernist house clad in deteriorating vertical wood siding. From the architect: We opened up the floor plan and completely demolished the sunroom, replacing it with a new dining room open to the remodeled living room and kitchen. We added a new office and deck
Design: Jeff King & Company Project: 5th Avenue House Architect of record: Marguerite Lonegran Location: San Francisco, California, US Photography: Brian Mahany 5th Avenue House is a open floor family home in San Francisco designed by Jeff King & Company. Project description: This family of four was looking for more private bedrooms and a more
