Written by: Zahid Sardar
Nearly a decade ago, the new owners of a 1924 Sea Cliff residence—originally designed by architect Earle Bertz—set out to transform the 4,900-square-foot Spanish Revival home into a pied-à-terre for their visits from China, …
For Tucker Nichols, 55, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at an early age, art became a vital way to express what words often fail to capture — even chaos. Raised in Boston and …
With financial institutions and other temples of commerce flagging since the pandemic, business consultant and hobby photographer Eugène Resh, 50, quit San Francisco in 2023 to roam the world. The city had been his …
No one wanted to ditch the past. “We were just looking to update the restaurant and not let a cool legacy die,” says Samantha DuVall Bechtel, a history buff and daughter of founder Sam …
Shape Shifters: Harnessing the magic of technology and craft Design consultancies like San Francisco’s IDEO, founded in 1978 by Stanford’s David Kelley, once worked quietly behind the scenes, shaping early tech products like the …
No school could have been more intentional about building design than the California College of the Arts. The planning took years. Photos by Jason O'Rear It faced the formidable challenge of reimagining its century-old, …
Excavations: Architect Nick Polansky Uses Waterjets for Art A decade ago, during an artist’s residency at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco, MIT-educated architect Nick Polansky, 41, began exploring hardwood’s resilience when he …
Sausalito architect Luca Pignata’s Florentine education—steeped in the shadow of Renaissance and Medieval buildings—resurfaced unexpectedly when he began work on a pair of modernist villas for a family compound in the northern part of …
Past Redux, Future Fixes As a child in a household of physicists and scientists, artist Andy Hope — whose show Yesterday’s Tomorrows is currently on view at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco …
Spacial Recognition In response to humanity’s impact on the planet and the resulting climate change, San Francisco photographer Thomas Heinser appears to place people, places, and objects on the same conceptual plane—each struggling to …