Saratoga Beach House published in “The Modern Residence”
INTERSTICE Architects’ Vancouver Island project, the Saratoga Beach House, was published in The Modern Residence publication. The beach house was built from two organically interconnected frames—one of mineral and one of wood—that float above a virtually undisturbed natural wetland in the Oyster River Basin flood plain. The extremely limited lot was dominated by a traversing […]
PARK(ing) Day project published in “Owning the Street”
INTERSTICE Architects’ PARK(ing) Day project(s) have been included in Amelia Thorpe’s new book, Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property, published by MIT Press. INTERSTICE has been creating spaces for PARK(ing) Day, the annual event for over a decade – re-claiming urban parking spaces for use as mini parks. Thorpe explores how the local & the […]
Firm’s cable car project featured in “San Francisco Examiner”
The cable car turnaround, located on Van Ness Avenue close to INTERSTICE Architect’s Polk Street office, was featured in an article for the San Francisco Examiner. In partnership with a variety of community groups including the Lower Polk Neighbors and the Lower Polk Community Benefit District, INTERSTICE is working to reimagine the existing terminal to […]
INTERSTICE Principal Presents to Urban Design Students at UC San Diego
Zoee Astrachan, Principal at INTERSTICE Architects, lectured at the University of California, San Diego, for an Urban Design Studio taught by Professor Susan Peerson, focused on combining urban design and planning skill sets to study the unexplored potential of alleyways in the urban fabric. INTERSTICE re-envisions Alleyways to strengthen neighborhood and community, by activating this […]
826 Valencia Tenderloin Center published in new McSweeney’s book – titled “Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire”
SEE OUR SPREAD HERE. The whimsical 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center, located on the corner of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, serves as an engaging writing workshop for San Francisco Bay Area youth, and an administrative office for the 826 Valencia nonprofit organization. The INTERSTICE project has […]
IA Principal Zoee Astrachan to speak at 2018 ASLA National Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
INTERSTICE Architects’ principal Zoee Astrachan will be speaking at the 2018 ASLA National Meeting and Expo in Philadelphia on Monday, October 22nd! Zoee, as part of a three-person transnational panel of landscape architects and developers, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of affordable and supportive housing projects. The panel will explore how to successfully support and […]
INTERSTICE’s Park(ing) Day 2017 Wins AIASF Mentorship Committee Competition
INTERSTICE Architects 2017 Park(ing) Day installation, Mirrored Mylar Forest-Field: Pedestrian Safety Along the Polk Corridor has won the first annual AIA San Francisco Mentorship Program’s 2017 Park(ing) Day Competition. The installation, which featured wind activated mylar attached to a bamboo structure, called for more awareness of pedestrian safety along the Polk Street corridor. The installation was recognized […]
SOMA:loft project selected for the AIASF’s 2017 Architecture & the City Home Tours on September 30th
AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design present the annual San Francisco Living: Home Tours, an open house event, featuring five outstanding modern homes. This popular program showcases a variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods and residences — including single-family homes and contemporary renovations. This is the first Bay Area tour series to promote […]
826 Valencia Tenderloin Center wins the AIA San Francisco 2017 Special Commendation Award for Social Responsibility
IA is honored to have received the 2017 AIA San Francisco Special Commendation Award for Social Responsibility. The 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center is a transformative project converting a dilapidated corner-liquor-store into a space of learning and delight where children become authors and the poet-laureates of their community. The whimsical retail space provides the “front” for […]
826 Valencia Tenderloin Center wins IIDA NCC 2017 Honor Award
826 Valencia Tenderloin Center took home the International Interior Design Awards Northern California Chapter 2017 Honor Award! Serving as a place of whimsy before entering the workshop, the retail store, “King Carl’s Emporium,” is named after 826’s San Francisco Mission location’s pet pufferfish, Carl. Visit the project page.
