Written by: Zahid Sardar
No school could have been more intentional about building design than the California College of the Arts. The planning took years. Photos by Jason O'Rear It faced the formidable challenge of reimagining its century-old, …
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 …
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 …
At the Harvey Milk Terminal at SFO, the Alaska Lounge, completed last summer by William Duff Architects, is a place you won’t want to leave quickly. Perhaps it’s because, as architect Jonathan Tsurui—who led …
San Francisco architect Luke Ogrydziak of OPA sets a robot loose to make art. If last year is any indication, the upcoming San Francisco Decorator Showcase from April 26-May 26, 2025, will certainly have …
Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
Architect Jess Field, 48, who surfed the California coast with his father, Stan Field, long before he joined their namesake Palo Alto firm, Field Architecture, felt an immediate thrill when was hired in 2017 …