IwamotoScott Architecture

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Cooper Hewitt Announces 2019 National Design Awards Winners

June 10, 2019

The 20th anniversary of the awards program honors Thomas Phifer, IwamotoScott, and SCAPE Landscape Architecture, among others, for their excellence in design.

Goto House by IwamotoScott Architecture

Napa County, California

Alex Klimoski

July 2, 2018

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In California, a vacation house's odd geometry creates an intriguing relationship between inside and out.

Pinterest HQ

Pin-Worthy: A technology company with design roots refines its ideal workspace.

Lydia Lee

August 1, 2016

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How does a startup still feel cozy and cohesive when it has ballooned into an 800-person organization?

Bloomberg Tech Hub

Market Driven: A financial powerhouse employs architecture and craft to dramatize its technology.

Lydia Lee

September 16, 2015

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In San Francisco, the latest tech office has the cultural prominence a lavish restaurant or fancy boutique would elsewhere. As the battle to entice technical talent continues, designers strive to outdo the competition with their imaginative environments.

Heavybit Industries

Open Platform: Treating weighty materials with a light hand, a local design team transforms a former warehouse into a communal workspace for cloud developers.

Lamar Anderson

June 16, 2013

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The cloud has an image problem. The term — which refers to the distributed networks of servers that store data and power all kinds of Internet services — gets tossed around a lot, but it doesn't evoke much beyond a vague nimbus of Amazon orders and MP3 files.

Obscura Digital

October 16, 2011

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Owner: Obscura Digital Completion Date: December 2010 (main interior), July 2011 (ScreenWall) Program: A three-story, 36,000-square-foot headquarters for an interactive media company, with a large multifunctional showroom and exhibition area, prototyping workshop spaces, workstations for digital production, offices, and a conference room. The project is an adaptive reuse of a 1940s concrete and steel-frame warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. IwamotoScott's office shares the building, with an office on the second floor. Design concept and solution: The architects set out to give Obscura Digital a raw yet more refined version of their previous headquarters, a warehouse on Bryant

Unbuilt Houses 2007

Jellyfish House

John Gendall

July 2, 2007

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An amphibious house benefits the ecology of its site.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

Known for their desirable wood-emulating aesthetic, PVC and composite deck boards have become popular building materials for outdoor living spaces because of their ability to withstand harsh climates and heavy foot traffic.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This course examines fire-rated glass door systems and how they can safeguard areas of egress while supporting a wide range of design goals.