The house began its life in 1949 as a modest four-room row house on one of the steepest streets in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. Dramatically expanded with two new floor levels, the building is now home to an active family of five with ample space for guests, parties, and projects.
When architect John Galen Howard mapped a Beaux-Arts plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus in the early 20th century, one of the first buildings erected in its spirit was Durant Hall—a two-story steel-framed structure completed in 1911 and wrapped in granite along classical lines.
With its grand roof canopy and sweeping entry plaza, the Ed Roberts Campus welcomes everyone into its fold. The 82,500-square-foot building, which sits atop a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in a scruffy part of Berkeley, sends a powerful message of inclusiveness to the diverse groups of people who work in and use it, as well as the neighborhood around it and, indeed, the world beyond. As the new home of 10 organizations serving people with many different kinds of disabilities, the center caters to the specific needs of people who have been shut out of buildings in the
Owner: Hoag Hospital Completion Date: August 2010 Program: A 244,000-square-foot acute care and orthopedic specialty hospital composed of a five-story patient bed tower that adjoins a three-level central atrium. The project is a renovation of the Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, a 20-year-old community hospital that was taken over by the Hoag system. A new program, the Hoag Orthopedic Institute, has nine operating rooms on the second floor of the atrium building; it replaces a mother-baby facility, which was absorbed by Hoag Hospital Newport. The Irvine project also includes two additional operating rooms, an 11-bay emergency department, imaging and
This 5,800-square-foot residence, situated within a protected-oak meadow in the hills above the city of Sonoma, overlooks the owner’s private vineyard with panoramic bay views to the south.
A single-story, 3,600-square-foot art gallery with offices, two galleries, a private viewing room, a preparator's area, and a flower garden that can accommodate sculptures.
Designing a small performing arts building that would work for both indoor recitals and outdoor concerts, Craig Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung drew inspiration from musical instruments.
'Now, the early guys got it. Schindler, Neutra, Wright,' says Barton Myers, sitting on a ledge of the terrace outside of his most recent steel and glass house in Montecito, California, completed in 2009.
The Habitat 15 project is a four-story, 15-unit infill housing project at the foot of the Hollywood Hills—half a block west of La Brea, and north of Fountain Avenue.
