Sensory experience
Architecture is felt by the skin, nose, and ears as well as the eyes.
Urbanism
We love cities and strive to help make them successful.
Housing for all
Sarina Bowen Kennerly
Principal
These 11 Buildings tell the story of 21st Century San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle
Owen Kennerly
Principal
City Hall (the building), rocks, celebrating Red Cross Month
@americanredcross
@sanfranciscocityandcounty
@sfciviccenter #red
#cityhall #beauxarts #architecturelovers #civicarchitecture #architecturallighting #designinspᴏ
Farewell Mission District….
Hello Downtown San Francisco!
After 19 years at 375 Alabama, we are setting up shop at 381 Bush St: A luminous full floor in the 1907 Alto Building, an 8-story steel-framed sliver with glazed brick, giant double-hung windows, and @haraz_coffeesf below. We’re excited to be part of this vibrant, bustling neighborhood and close to our friends at @singular_builders @aiasf @gensler_design and many others.
Great memories from two decades in the Mission and a refreshing change to kick-off our exciting next chapter!
#downtownsf #publicarchitecture
#sanfranciscoarchitecture #historicsanfrancisco #architectureoffice #designinspo #kennerlyarchitecture
“Didactic Details”
Teaching a design studio at UC Berkeley this semester is an opportunity to revisit the wonderful but much maligned Bauer-Wurster Hall: a building that teaches by celebrating its structure, systems and circulation. Like many brutalist buildings, Wurster required a major seismic retrofit (demolition was floated as an option), that amplified its mission by exposing new structural elements and seizing new spatial opportunities.
I do miss the graffiti in the stairwell….
@ucberkeleyarch #brutalism #concrete #midcenturymodern #modernarchitecture #midcenturydesign #designinspo #architectureeducation