2024-11-21T14:03:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150220809/hobbit-revival-enclave-dormitory-in-berkeley-now-completed Alexander Walter 2020-09-15T18:11:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5a/5ac629579cb14a618f298863567236b2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Even with everything else going on right now, the crazed excess of the newest building on Berkeley&rsquo;s Telegraph Avenue is guaranteed to stop you in your tracks.</p></em><br /><br /><p><em>The Chronicle</em>&rsquo;s urban design critic, John King, reviews the now-completed and very much style-agnostic <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150150926/hobbit-revival-dormitory-headed-to-berkeley" target="_blank">Enclave dormitory</a> in Downtown Berkeley. "It's as if Harry Potter and Fred Flintstone decided to build a McMansion. On acid."</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ef/efcde70c1215c30d1542948aa7c2cbd5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ef/efcde70c1215c30d1542948aa7c2cbd5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy of LCA Architects. </figcaption></figure><p>"The design mimics a Moorish palace and is inspired by numerous other <br>muses such as Tibetan forts, Italian hill towns, and the rock-cut <br>fac&#807;ades of Petra," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzwzK-DdMU/" target="_blank">states</a> the project description from <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/41901125/lca-architects" target="_blank">LCA Architects</a>, the architect of record.</p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzwzK-DdMU/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> View this post on Instagram </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzwzK-DdMU/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by LCA ARCHITECTS (@lca.architects)</a> on Aug 12, 2020 at 5:07pm PDT<br><p>The seven-story student housing project, designed by <a href="http://www.kpaarch.com/" target="_blank">Kirk E. Peterson &amp; Associates</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150150926/hobbit-revival-dormitory-headed-to-berkeley" target="_blank">first appeared</a> on Archinect last summer. <br></p>