Written by: Zahid Sardar
Transportive designs that tease technology Rose Tinted Glasses – Johanna Grawunder's witty beacons San Francisco–based designer Johanna Grawunder has spent decades moving fluidly between architecture, art, and industrial design, with light as her primary medium. …
Zoox, the first electric robotaxi of its kind, debuted in Las Vegas and is now being readied for the hills of San Francisco. A Bay Area native — born in 2014 and built under …
Jason Langkammerer’s Wrightian fixer-upper commands a hilltop view For Bay Area architect Jason Langkammerer, his design-build instincts run in the family. His father was an architect-contractor, and Langkammerer quickly learned what makes great design …
And how artist/photographer Catherine Wagner refracts history At 500 Capp Street Foundation, the former home and lifelong artwork of David Ireland, Catherine Wagner reconsiders photography not as a static medium but as a mutable …
Against all odds this in-fill house in Dolores Heights is a well of light. On a steep, hemmed-in lot in San Francisco’s Dolores Heights, a new four-story home by Dumican Mosey Architects transforms a …
The Green Room: Designed to bring out the child in you A leafy roost for multi-tasking diners Architect EB Min of Min Design entered a competition—sponsored by Mission Rock Partners, who transformed land leased …
New: At The Hall in SF, cue up some fun. Designer Craige Walters — known for countless successful San Francisco nightclubs, including Black Cat in the Tenderloin — has in recent years been working …
Its creators took some heat. Then, the plunge. Floating quietly in Richardson Bay, Fjord reimagines the Scandinavian sauna. The minimalist retreat — two aspen-lined steam rooms perched on a concrete barge — offers warmth …
Designer Alexa Wyman gives pet furniture a fun, sophisticated makeover. In East Bay designer Alexa Wyman’s world, Fido doesn’t share the couch — he has one expressly made for him. “When I was at Douglas …
San Francisco’s Walker Warner architects embraced light and shade in sybaritic Kauai The cedar and oak horizontal slat fence separating this nearly 4,000-square-foot U-shaped home from the road seems almost incidental. Even with two gates that …