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San Francisco

The Intersection of Modernism & Wabi-Sabi: John Lum’s Unique Redesign

Karine Monié March 8, 2023
John Lum Architecture faced a significant challenge when tasked with the complete redesign of a midcentury modern-style home in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Heights. The team completely reimagined the space, incorporating Japanese aesthetics and midcentury architecture to create a cohesive design that reflected the owner’s eclectic taste.

Medium Plenty: The Transformation of a 1920s Spanish Revival Home

Karine Monié March 8, 2023
A family of four in Northern California has given their 1920s-era Spanish Revival home a new lease of life with a renovation that prioritizes family and fun. Regan Baker Design, Medium Plenty, and Terremoto all contributed to the project, which aimed to reflect the owners’ eclectic interests and personalities while also maximizing the potential of the location.

Seamless Expansion of a Wine Country Home by Feldman Architecture

Karine Monié January 25, 2023
The design of this Feldman Architecture home incorporated the natural colors of the rural setting, with concrete floors, walnut-clad ceilings, and four oversized counterweight glass doors that open onto a poolside patio, terrace and fire pit.

Spiegel Aihara Workshop’s Middle Ground

Jenn Thornton January 11, 2023
San Francisco-based design firm SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop tackled the challenge of transforming a 1962 house with a dated floor plan and created The Middle Half, a light-filled dwelling with a clear connection to the landscape and layered geometries highlighted by raw materials.

Urban Oasis at 1 Hotel San Francisco

Karine Monié October 19, 2022
Originally launched in 2015, 1 Hotels comprises properties in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, China and Toronto. Last June, San Francisco joined the list. More than just a new series of stylish hotels, 1 Hotels is a nature-inspired lifestyle brand that takes sustainability seriously.

Light Touch: Studio William Hefner’s Palisades Ranch

Jenn Thornton September 7, 2022
With the clean lines of a modern aesthetic balanced with the warmth of traditional style, Palisades Ranch is a characteristically sunny Southern California house designed by a quintessential California architect, William Hefner.

Montage Residences Healdsburg: Dream Works

Abigail Stone February 9, 2022
Montage Residences Healdsburg, the latest offering from Montage Hotels and Resorts located in Sonoma County, utilized the talents of San Francisco-based BAR Architects and San Diego-based DeLawie Architects to create a place that will inspire and stand the test of time.

Sea Ranch Lodge: An Honest Renaissance

Karine Monié December 8, 2021
Spread across 10 miles of the Northern California coastline and located 100 miles north of San Francisco, The Sea Ranch comprises 2,224 private homes built on 7,000 acres surrounded by the typical vegetation and landscape of the area: cypress hedgerows, meadows, rolling hills, redwood, and Douglas fir forests, with, of course, sublime ocean views.

EYRC Blue Sail: Modern, Modified

Abigail Stone November 10, 2021
“Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects works in a modern idiom but without a set vocabulary or language,” explains architect Takashi Yanai, a partner at the firm, its Residential Studio Director since 2004, and the current leader of its San Francisco Studio.

Flying Mane Road: Above the Clouds

Constance Dunn October 27, 2021
Dr. Godfrey Pernell, who would serve multiple terms as mayor of Rolling Hills, and his wife Beverly purchased Flying Mane Road, the approximately 1.16-acre property in 1950 after being driven to the remote site, where they paced off the lot lines of their forever home.

Olson Kundig’s Meadow House: Warm Modernism

Karine Monié September 1, 2021
Located in Woodside, California, this 17,000-square-foot home was built on an exceptional 3.5-acre site for a couple—who are active philanthropists with a focus on children’s health and education, and cancer research—and their children.
Richard Beard, Bar Architects, Portola Valley, Joseph Esherick, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Vita Pehar, Westridge, William Wurster

Richard Beard’s Custom-Designed Portola Valley Family Refuge

Karine Monié July 21, 2021
Richard Beard custom-designed this 7,000-square-foot house for a couple with young children. The property is ideally located in the Westridge area of Portola Valley, a desirable and exclusive enclave of the San Francisco Peninsula, close to Silicon Valley.