Architecture
Two San Francisco–based design firms were among the 10 winners of the 2013 National Design Awards, announced by the...More»
Jay Nelson doesn’t just want you to look at his art pieces—he wants you to clamber into them, cram them with gear, and drive them across the country. Though he...More»
Not every 21st-century exec wants an office littered with Ping-Pong tables, bocce courts, and napping nooks. In this city of startups, there's something tantalizingly grown-up about a workplace like One Kearny Club, where pony-hair...More»
Zero. Zilch. Nada. The buzziest new Bay Area homes aren't envied for their Kim and Kanye-like excess. Instead, their cool factor lies in what's lacking. Going beyond sustainable building, these homeowners are striving for net-zero...More»
Pacific Heights architecture firm Turnbull Griffin Haesloop is known for pulling off deft designs in tricky settings, whether flooding an ancient, cavelike house in...More»
After forfeiting its original Union Square location in 2010 to rising rents and then pop-up hopping throughout the city, the Museum of Craft and Design has found a permanent home...More»
Green-construction firm Cree Building developed its New Age–sounding LifeCycle Tower system with two goals in mind: to make its structures more...More»
It takes some gumption to build a three-story addition onto one’s home as an homage to the painter Piet Mondrian. What if the primary-color blocks end up looking more Legoland than Louvre? Luckily for owners John Marx, a...More»
Mexican-born, San Francisco-based artist Ana Teresa Fernandez likes to ask uncomfortable questions: How do we measure a woman's worth? Why do we build walls between...More»
Long dominated by scaled-up wooden lodges, kitschy cabins, and Nixon-era ski resort condos, Tahoe’s architecture is finally coming of age. Today, daring builders are scrapping the knotty pine paneling in favor of sustainable...More»
MOST RENOVATING HOMEOWNERS gamely volunteer that they want to be hands-on, but British software consultant Michael Burn has the calluses to prove it. When it came time to fabricate the pièce de résistance of his revamped Potrero...More»
AS A RETIRED VIRGIN AMERICA AIRLINE EXEC, Fred Reid knows a thing or two about a bird’s-eye view. Though he already had a sprawling home (designed by Dogpatch-based architect...More»
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