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Established in 1993, Quezada Architecture is an award winning, full service architecture, interiors, and planning firm committed to excellence in modern design and sustainability. Domestic and international project types include estate residential, entertainment, non-profit, philanthropic, commercial, hospitality, financial, high-tech, and public sector work.
"Nature-inspired modern" architect specializing in residential, commercial, and restaurant work with a focus on craft and natural materials
IwamotoScott Architecture is an award winning architecture and design firm established by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott. Based in San Francisco, California, the firm has gained national and international recognition for innovative design with projects around the country and overseas. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, IwamotoScott proceeds from the belief that each project can achieve a unique design synthesis. IwamotoScott's client list includes arts organizations, educational institutions, media firms, commercial developers, and private clients. Our projects consist of work at all scales including urban design, buildings, interiors, full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, and theoretical proposals. IwamotoScott has received over forty five design awards and honors, including fourteen AIA Design Awards; Architizer's 2014 A+ Award; Architect's Newspaper's Best Of 2014 Award; Interior Design Best of Year Awards; Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2011; CA Home + Design’s Ten to Watch 2011; and The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices 2007; three I.D. magazine Design Awards; Wood Council Design Awards; Progressive Architecture and R+D Awards from Architect magazine; Grand Prize in the History Channel City of the Future: SF 2108 Design Challenge; and Winner of World’s Coolest Office 2011 from Inc./Architizer for Obscura Digital HQ. IwamotoScott’s work has been exhbited in over seventy galleries, museums and other venues including the National Design Triennial at Smithsonian/Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Vitra Design Museum/Art Center College of Design, the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA/PS1, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Artists Space Gallery, and the work is represented in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. IwamotoScott’s work has been included in over one hundred fortty books, journals and newspapers; and Lisa and Craig have lectured on the work of the firm at over seventy professional, academic, and arts institutions worldwide.
Folger & Burt Architectural Hardware offers homeowners, designers, contractors and architects the most complete selection of some of the finest American and European door, window and cabinet hardware. Owner Tim Folger, with over 27 years construction expertise along with the 12 years the hardware business, along with custom finish and fabrication work, offers the best you can get in service in the industry. Our client base ranges geographically from as far away as South America, to the East Coast, Texas, and Hawaii just to mention a few.
Resisting a culture of “no” in architecture, Min | Day says “yes”. Architecture is a big tent. Saying “yes” or “why not?” to opportunity, rather than fleeing perceived constraints increases the diversity and range of a practice. “No” limits the discipline while “yes” opens it up to unknown potentials. Principals EB Min and Jeffrey L. Day established Min | Day in 2003 in San Francisco, California and Omaha, Nebraska with the intention of saying “yes” to architecture’s potential. The contrasting settings of the practice—the urbane, topographically complex Bay Area and the agricultural checkerboard of the Great Plains—has deeply informed the attitude of the firm and fostered an open, expansive approach to design. The practice began with an evolving dialogue between locales, the West Coast and Midwest, but increasingly this is a dialogue between professional practice, academic engagement and pro-bono work explored through advanced craft, materiality and program. This approach yields rich and adaptable processes that have enabled the office to produce high-impact design for a wide variety of clients both well-funded and under-resourced. Projects exploit the interplay between actual and implied volumes and natural and applied color, shaping places that can be appreciated both for their architectural discipline and the sheer pleasure they afford. Surface materiality and color are important tools of space making that can reinforce or contradict the other components of spatial geometry, intensifying the experience or adding complexity. The work is rigorously detailed while eschewing strict formal order in favor of responsive, flexible spaces that remain open to the improvisations of everyday life. Design rigor can—and should—enable playfulness as well as sobriety. A significant component of Min | Day is the firm’s allied practice, FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team), a design-fabrication, service-learning lab staffed by interns and students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With FACT, Min | Day undertakes art installations, built-work commissions and master plans for creative non-profit organizations, often resulting in innovative social spaces. For Min | Day, FACT is a vehicle for advancing the dialogue between practice, academia and pro-bono service. By forming long-term client partnerships Min | Day educates students not only in design and fabrication but also in design advocacy. FACT has also generated unique partnerships such as the collaborations with state penitentiary inmates on a recent pro-bono projects. FACT will initiate a new center at the San Francisco Art Institute in Spring 2014 to work with art students on a design-build campus project. The work through FACT has been instrumental in Min | Day’s development of design computation, digital fabrication techniques and (affordable) material innovation. The nimbleness and flexibility required to realize FACT projects has also informed commissioned work in the office. Working with non-profit artists’ residency programs and galleries, for which capital development is a slow and discontinuous process, one can’t depend on rigorous control over form, light, and detail. Instead, the firm seeks ways of structuring experience that will serve to unify the work of wide-ranging teams and successors. Taking cues from a landscape design sensibility affords a productive approach to such projects with uncertain futures and long timelines. However, working with tech startups requires an agility and speed necessary to keep up with the fast pace of technology. Design takes cues for Action Painting - action architecture. The widely published work of the office has garnered numerous AIA awards and other honors including the 2007 AIA California Council Emerging Talent award, Architectural Record Magazine’s 2009 Design Vanguard, the 2009 New Practices San Francisco award, California Home & Design’s Ten to Watch in 2009, Residential Architect’s 2010 Rising Star Award, and the ACSA’s inaugural national Design Build Award in 2013.
Pfau Long Architecture is a nationally recognized design firm distinguished by its unconventional projects and environmentally sensitive, leading-edge design.
Arterra provides a unique and visionary residential landscape design service which integrates art with technology. The resulting gardens are sculptural, visually stunning and environmentally sustainable. Working with a design lexicon that is at once timeless and contemporary, Arterra crafts gardens that give voice to the client, the site and the architecture.
Enclosures International is a family owned and operated packing and shipping company. Enclosures provides White Glove Service for the Interior Design and Art Community in the greater Bay Area. We also sponsor the Girls and Boys Club of San Francisco and the Ronald McDonald House.
LINEOFFICE Architecture, Inc. is a full service architecture and design studio founded by Ross Hummel and located in San Francisco, California. We are a design centered practice focused on meeting our clients goals through innovative design solutions.
Nibbi has been constructing technically complex, iconic structures in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 60 years. We have the knowledge and experience required to deliver the region’s most challenging, logistically difficult and sustainable projects. We base our success on the continued and focused application of three key strategies: The Right Goals The right goals are your goals. At Nibbi, we not only want to earn your business, we want to earn your trust. Our relentless attention to your specific needs—coupled with the experience and skills to meet those needs—has earned us the continued trust of hundreds of satisfied clients. The Right Team We believe that having the right people on board is key to meeting your project needs. Nibbi’s seasoned construction professionals are supported by a young and motivated staff that bring new ideas and skills to the company. The Nibbi team specifically chosen for your project will expertly manage every detail—from estimating through closeout—ensuring that each decision supports the project’s budget, schedule, quality, sustainability and safety objectives. Our years of experience working effectively with our project partners—architects, subcontractors, and state and local agencies—also helps us to expertly navigate your project through each stage of construction. The Right Approach Nibbi has learned from 60 years of experience that the right approach is honest, collaborative and proactive, and supported by advanced technology. An honest, realistic and transparent assessment of costs, for example, gives our clients greater price certainty. Early team collaboration, when teamed with creative, proactive problem solving, can help us maximize quality and avoid significant problems down the road. Additionally, our team’s expert use of advanced technology, including Building Information Modeling, allows us to build your project virtually before we build it in the field, leading to fewer change orders and related budget/schedule impacts.
We build out high quality interiors for office, medical and dental, scientific and laboratory, industrial and retail users. In addition to interiors, we perform major exterior renovations, seismic upgrades and construct new buildings. We pride ourselves on delivering complicated projects quickly with the highest quality.