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Studio Gang’s completed Verde mixed-use tower is turning heads in San Francisco. The latest addition to the skyline of Mission Rock, which recently includes MVRDV’s The Canyon, is a 23-story design that features 254 apartments with a competitive amenities suite and ground-floor retail and... View full entry
The latest curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights 12 architecture and design firms (+1 school) in the San Francisco Bay Area currently offering a range of exciting opportunities. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check... View full entry
The latest curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights 19 architecture and design firms in the San Francisco Bay Area currently looking to grow with various exciting positions. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles... View full entry
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has announced the passing of its founding principal Marsha Ann Maytum at the age of 69 following her battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). She is being remembered as a champion of environmental concerns and the holistic approach to architectural design. Her... View full entry
The nearly two-year-old Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity has shared news of its arrival in a new permanent home in the San Francisco Bay Area that will consolidate its archival collection under one roof for the first time. The new location helps the Institute engage with the collection, which... View full entry
If you're an experienced professional ready for new architectural career opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area, this newest edition of our curated job picks from Archinect Jobs is for you. Look below at this selection of 10 featured employers looking to expand with a variety of exciting... View full entry
The Bay Area may be home to Silicon Valley, notable sports teams, and the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's also home to amazing architecture firms. Whether you're looking to live within San Francisco's bustling downtown scene or be a part of Oakland's developmental... View full entry
The effort to engineer new train tunnels across the San Francisco Bay is gaining traction after the planning body responsible for overseeing the massive proposed Link21 infrastructure project unveiled conceptual maps detailing a key segment of the rail network on September 21. The maps offer... View full entry
An economic and cultural powerhouse, the San Francisco Bay Area is bustling with exciting architecture and design firms — and they're hiring! While the majority of career opportunities posted on Archinect Jobs are located within the big western and southern urban centers of the region, there... View full entry
San Francisco-based transdisciplinary studio Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) shared new images of an extensive home renovation project of a 1930s Spanish Revival home in the Bay Area's Marina neighborhood. Aptly named the "Wraparound House," the project was commissioned by a couple looking for... View full entry
Eight lucky winners have been awarded decommissioned BART cars, as BART announced these retired cars will be transformed into a retro video game arcade, a bike repair shop, and a beer garden at The Oakland A’s stadium. — SFist
In 2020, BART issued a request for proposals for the creative reuse of old train cars as they are taken out of service and replaced by their “Fleet of the Future” cars. The first of the BART’s 775 new train cars went into service in January 2018. The fate of the decommissioned cars, some... View full entry
World famous as the center of the tech industry, the San Francisco Bay Area is also home to a myriad of exciting architecture and design firms. And they're in need of creative talent right now as the huge number of listings in the region on Archinect Jobs shows. If you're searching for... View full entry
The maddening hum of safety slats on the pedestrian handrails of the Golden Gate Bridge will finally be silenced under a recently released proposal by the Bridge District.
The fix — devised and tested by bridge engineers in consultation with aerodynamic and acoustic experts — calls for attaching U-shaped clips containing a thin rubber sleeve to all 12,000 vertical slats on the railings.
— The San Francisco Chronicle
The haunting acoustic hum is the direct result of a $12 million wind retrofit project authored by the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. A few enterprising locals have made the most of the deafening din, although the majority of drivers in the Bay Area were vocally against it... View full entry
The single image published Dec. 8, 1922, resembles the industrial Carquinez Bridge, except at 20 times the scale. It’s the kind of bridge one designs when all they have to work with is Popsicle sticks and string. — The San Francisco Chronicle
An engineer turned newspaper editor named James Wilkins was the first to propose the bridge in a 1916 San Francisco Bulletin article. Joseph Strauss' early plans called for a cantilever-suspension hybrid but were later changed due to eight-figure cost concerns. Illustration of the... View full entry
As the world heats up and sea levels rise, communities in the U.S. could spend more than $400 billion on seawalls to try to hold the ocean back over the next couple of decades. But there’s a catch: Building a seawall in one area can often mean that flooding gets even worse in another neighborhood or city nearby. — Fast Company
A new paper from The Natural Capital Project at Stanford University that examines how seawalls might impact California's Bay Area was published this spring, adding to a slate of similar scholarship surrounding seawalls that have cropped up in recent years. Other efforts have seen a... View full entry
