Written by: Claudia Middendorf
No school could have been more intentional about building design than the California College of the Arts. The planning took years. It faced the formidable challenge of reimagining its century-old, 4-acre Arts and Crafts …
When Thomas Goetz and Whitney Wright decided to reconfigure their home’s attic on Potrero Hill, they wanted a professional who understood the neighborhood. They found Cary Bernstein, a Yale-educated architect who remodeled their Potrero …
Nearly nine years ago, after Andrew and Kathleen Blank of Park City, Utah, purchased a one-and-a-half-acre vineyard property west of Healdsburg, they learned that it sits on a floodplain. Neighboring creeks and the Russian …
About 15 years ago, Julie and Will Parish were looking to make a conservation purchase — of “land that needed love,” as she puts it — within an hour or two of their home …
Excavations: Architect Nick Polansky Uses Waterjets for Art A decade ago, during an artist’s residency at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco, MIT-educated architect Nick Polansky, 41, began exploring hardwood’s resilience when he …
Sausalito architect Luca Pignata’s Florentine education—steeped in the shadow of Renaissance and Medieval buildings—resurfaced unexpectedly when he began work on a pair of modernist villas for a family compound in the northern part of …
Past Redux, Future Fixes As a child in a household of physicists and scientists, artist Andy Hope — whose show Yesterday’s Tomorrows is currently on view at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco …
Cast, Brazed, Hewn, Turned and Crafted The Elytron Lamp by Tuell & Reynolds — inspired by beetle wing cases— has a textured base of light, warm or dark bronze, as well as a warm …
Spacial Recognition In response to humanity’s impact on the planet and the resulting climate change, San Francisco photographer Thomas Heinser appears to place people, places, and objects on the same conceptual plane—each struggling to …
What Shapes a Designer? Long before I knew what a designer was, I was a kid in my room painting, drawing, and building computers with my brothers. I didn’t know design could be a …