Our Studio ― San Francisco
Contents
Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Front Cover and Left: The Edge, South San Francisco, CA
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― Introduction
We’re creative thinkers with a passion for design and a compassion for communities.
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We believe that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. Perkins&Will is known and respected in the region for excellent design, project delivery, and innovation in transit-oriented development, planning, and urban design. Long-term client relationships and repeat assignments have been hallmarks of our individual and collective efforts. Research-focused and inventive, we re-imagine how space can be used to foster stronger ties between communities, the built environment, and nature. Sustainable design and the use of healthy building materials are fundamental to our process. Our 75-person office prides ourselves in our deeply rooted community of designers who have been working in the San Francisco Bay Area for 20+ years. 6
Our San Francisco Studio is LEED Platinum-Certified & Fitwel Certified
Most Innovative Companies in Architecture 2018 Fast Company
#2 Architecture Firm, 2019 Architectural Record and Interior Design Magazine
Areas of Practice Civic and Cultural
K-12 Education
Corporate and Commercial
Planning and Strategies
Corporate Interiors
Science and Technology
Health
Transportation
Higher Education
Urban Design
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― Selected Projects
Design that supports the human body, mind, and spirit.
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Bay Area Metro Center San Francisco, California Client: Metropolitan Transportation Commission Size: 525,000 square feet Completion Date: 2016 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: ENR California Best Project, Northern California Award, Renovation/Restoration Category, 2016 Building Design+Construction, Silver Reconstruction Award, 2016 San Francisco Business Times, Real Estate Deals of the Year, Renovation Category, 2017 ― WHAT IT IS
Adaptive reuse of a 1940’s-era Army warehouse into a headquarters for multiple government agencies.
← The new address — 375 Beale Street — pays tribute to Senate Bill 375, landmark 2008 state legislation that charted a path toward sustainability and dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Bay Area Metro Center
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← Flexible work environments promote interagency collaboration.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A three-story cut-out makes room for a ginko tree to grow.
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1 De Haro San Francisco, California Client: SKS Partners Size: 130,000 square feet Completion Date: 2020 (est.) Sustainability: LEED PlatinumÂŽ goal
― WHAT IT IS
New maker space building combined with office space in the Dogpatch.
1 De Haro
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
1 De Haro will be the first mass timber building in San Francisco to use CLT and the first multistory building of its type in California.
� At street level, roll up doors and storefronts bring light manufacturing to the street and surrounding neighborhood.
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Building 12 San Francisco, California Client: Brookfield Investments ― Size: 230,000 square feet ― Completion Date:2021 ― Sustainability: LEED Gold Anticipated
― WHAT IT IS
Renovation of an historic building at Pier 70 into a combined market hall and office spaces.
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Building 12
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
To adapt to projected 100-year sea-level rise and to ensure the future viability of this project, Building 12 and the adjacent Building 15 historic frame was lifted 10’-0” above current ground level.
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Clockwise from Top Right: Building 12 is envisioned as a vibrant community gathering space; wood cribbing stacks support the building mid-lift; the ground floor is open to the public and invites visitors to engage with the space.
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University of Utah Research Park Vision Plan Salt Lake City, Utah Client: University of Utah Size: 320 acres Completion Date: 2020
― WHAT IT IS
A diverse, compact, and amenity-rich walkable district where innovators can live, work, and collaborate.
� The magnificent backdrop of the Wasatch Mountains reminds the University of Utah daily that their environment is unique, precious, and embodies the spirit of our community.
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University of Utah Research Park Vision Plan
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
UURP is striving to be an international model of how efficient urban development a calibrated mix of uses, state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure, and forward-thinking leadership can foster an optimal innovation ecosystem.
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The Urban School San Francisco, California Client: The Urban School Size: 63,600 square feet Completion Date: 2015 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: Outstanding Design, Facilities & Recreation Centers, American School & University, 2016
― WHAT IT IS
Innovative solutions for a high school located in the heart of San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood.
← To fully maximize the available space, we activated the rooftop area with an outdoor turf field and additional student commons. This rooftop space also offers panoramic views of the Panhandle, Sutro Tower, and the city beyond, further reflecting the school’s place and mission within the community.
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The Urban School
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← Urban’s Academic and Wellness Center included seven flexible classrooms, two-level student commons, a full-sized cross court gymnasium (which can also be used as an event center), a commercial kitchen and café, and casual meeting spaces and areas for reflection.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
An old Victorian house that sat in the middle of the new site was winched, fully intact, to the edge of the project site in one day. 29
Center for Novel Therapeutics La Jolla, California Client: Biomed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 137,500 square feet Completion Date: 2019 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ Awards: Best Projects Award of Merit, Higher Education/ Research Category, ENR California Region, 2019
― WHAT IT IS
A hub for cancer research that blends academic research with private-sector support.
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Center for Novel Therapeutics
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The design fosters collaboration between users with the goal of accelerating therapies from bench to bedside.
↑ Situated in the center of the atrium is an irresistible stairway to promote active design and chance encounters.
← Situated in the heart of an academic research, healthcare and life science center ecosystem, the CNT project had to innovate beyond the traditional lab organization to create a new generation of research and collaboratively oriented lab spaces.
→ Responding to the project’s specific demands for research and collaboration, the CNT project was designed by inverting the traditional laboratory design—pushing the laboratories to the outside of the building, creating views to the campus and introducing generous amounts of daylight into the space.
Buildings O & M San Francisco, California Client: Build Inc. Size: 51,837 square feet Completion Date: 2018 Sustainability: GreenPoint Rated Gold Awards: Best of the Year Multi Family Company, Interior Design 2018
― WHAT IT IS
Achieved through a unique collaboration between two architectural firms, the result is two distinct, yet complementary buildings that reflect a true urban block.
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Buildings O & M
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Buildings O&M activate the neighborhood with contextual design elements and public amenities, contributing to a pleasant and walkable neighborhood feel.
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100 Hooper San Francisco, California Client: Kilroy Realty Size: 438,000 square feet Completion Date: October 2018 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
A mixed-use office building designed to encourage manaufacturing companies and provide office space to a variety of market sectors.
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100 Hooper
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The ground floor will host a variety of new businesses at affordable rents, while the upper three stories will be market rate office space. 41
EmeryStation West Emeryville, California Client: Wareham Development Size: 336,661 square feet Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
Core and shell project consisting of 336,661 gross square feet of office, laboratory, clinic spaces, and a 700 car parking structure.
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EmeryStation West
Left and Below: Sculptures and murals were commissioned to reflect the history of Emeryville and the important work of all our tenants at the EmeryStation campus.
Left: The lobby was inspired by the clients’ desire to achieve simple elegance with natural reclaimed materials and landscape elements. Design elements that support active waiting—mobile computing and access to wireless internet—also figure prominently into the lobby.
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Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan Sacramento, California Client: City of Sacramento Size: 31 acres Completion Date: 2020
― WHAT IT IS
This Area Plan will guide the transformation of the 31-acre study area into a sustainable regional mobility hub within a connected, vibrant, and walkable community. 46
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With respect to Sacramento’s historic context, the network of open spaces will bring local communities and visitors together for socially inclusive events that celebrate quality lifestyle, easy access to multiple travel modes, and closer interaction with nature.
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Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan
� An inviting and engaging open space for all members to circulate through with ease, the plaza provides a vibrant urban environment supported by the multi-modal transit hub, active building frontages and resilient landscaping
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Office Building South San Francisco, California Client: Confidential Size: 250,000 square feet Completion Date: 2015 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
A cutting edge workplace blending an energetic social atrium with contemplative work spaces.
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Office Building
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The almost 10,000 employees on the building’s campus are a part of something much bigger than a single workgroup or team.
↑ Light drenched bridges link two office wings and facilitate chance meetings.
→ Just as the nature of teamwork has evolved to embrace collaboration, the teaming zones are adaptable and unconstrained by conventional physical desks, computers, or files.
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Campus Housing San Francisco, California Client: University of California Hastings Law Size: 198 McAllister - 365,000 square feet, 656 units; 100 McAllister - 276,000 square feet, 244 units Completion Date: 2024
― WHAT IT IS
Two towers - one new and one renovation will provide campus housing for students and revitalize the Tenderloin neighborhood.
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Campus Housing
↑ A ribbon of transparent public spaces winds its way across the buildings via a series of windows. The transparency provides a connection between the inner workings of 198 McAllister and the public realm, ascending to show a number of study rooms before culminating at a skyline lounge and terrace.
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270 Brannan San Francisco, California Client: SKS Partners Size: 200,000 square feet Completion Date: 2014 Sustainability: LEED PlatinumÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
A modern office building designed to accomodate innovative companies.
The central courtyard provides an organizational and social heart of the building.
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270 Brannan
→ 270 Brannan recreates a sense of the lost topography, stepping up off Rincon Hill by providing entrances on Brannan Street and De Boom Street.
� Steel and glass suspended canopy.
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Chase Center Office Towers San Francisco, California Client: Golden State Warriors Size: 438,000 square feet Completion Date: September 2019
― WHAT IT IS
Mixed-use office and retail building on the site of the new Golden State Warriors’s arena.
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Chase Center Office Towers
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The tear-drop shaped tower complements the event center’s curvilinear aesthetic without mimicking it.
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New Work Environments South San Francisco, California Client: Confidential Size: 3,000-10,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
Our interiors studio integrated into a team of workplace strategists to create a series of new work environments.
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New Work Environments
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Testing and deploying new strategies, each project influenced the next.
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1700 Webster Oakland, California Client: Gerding Edlen Size: 200,000 square feet Completion Date: 2019
― WHAT IT IS
New mixed-use residential high-rise building in downtown Oakland.
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1700 Webster
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The building reflects downtown Oakland’s unique market and demographic.
↑ The lobby highlights a mural done by a local artist.
← Rooftop amenities include a pool, community garden, yoga studio, dog park, bocce ball court, and outdoor lounge.
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Potrero Power Station San Francisco, California Client: Associate Capital Size: 21 acres Completion Date: Ongoing
― WHAT IT IS
The development will bring 2,600 new residential units, organized into multiple buildings and offered at various levels of affordability.
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Potrero Power Station
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The Power Station once generated one-third of San Francisco’s power and delivered it to residents across the city.
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, California Client: University of California, Berkeley Size: 74,000 square feet (6,875 square meters) Completion Date: 2017 Sustainability: LEED PlatinumÂŽ, TRUE Platinum Zero Waste Certified
― WHAT IT IS
Chou Hall represents a new focal point for the Haas campus and is devoted entirely to student learning and interaction, where classroom and digital learning work together to foster community.
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University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Chou Hall
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Chou Hall is the country’s greenest academic building, having earned TRUE Zero Waste certification at the highest possible level along with a LEED Platinum certification for its energy efficient design.
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Building 50 South San Francisco, California Client: Confidential Completion Date: 2020 (est.)
― WHAT IT IS
Core and shell for a new building on a confidential client’s large campus in South San Francisco.
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Building 50
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Visitors and employees will get a glimpse at the inner workings of the manufacturing side of the business. 85
Mission Rock San Francisco, California Client: San Francisco Giants Size: 28 acres Completion Date: Ongoing Awards: Urban Design Merit Award, AIA California Council, 2011; Urban Design Merit Award, AIA San Francisco, 2010
― WHAT IT IS
Mission Rock will be a new mixedused neighborhood consisting of 8 acres of new public open space, approximately 1,500 new rental homes with 40% affordable to low and middle income families, and small retail shops and cafes.
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Mission Rock
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Mission Rock was an actual rock formation in San Francisco Bay, an obstacle to watercraft navigating the coastline immediately east of the site in the 1800’s.
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For more information, contact: greg.johnson@perkinswill.com