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INTERSTICE Architects’ Amy’s Drive Thru projects were published in INTERIOR DESIGN, one located in Corte Madera opened in early August, and another was in San Francisco Airport’s Harvey Milk Terminal One. The architecture of the restaurant is a hybrid between farm kitchen and countryside barn, combining an open interior with a spacious garden-surrounded patio. At the project’s start, INTERSTICE was asked to translate the Amy’s brand into the new Corte Madera location, carefully crafting the site and building relationships to fit this Marin County community. This Amy’s Drive Thru continues to develop the company’s pioneering vision of accessible vegetarian food that is socially responsible and their visionary prototype of comforting food within a comforting and light-filled architectural place.

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INTERSTICE Architects’ California Cable Turn-Around Vision Plan was published in SF Chronicle, highlighting the focus of INTERSTICE Architects on public space and better urban infrastructure as they lead an effort to re-envision and transform San Francisco’s westernmost Cable Car turn-around.  The plan envisions this “end-of-the-line” bus stop island transformed into a great urban space for people to gather and enjoy the iconic thrill of SF’s legendary Cable Cars.  The new Polk Plaza creates a gate to the historic merchant corridor for the cable cars coming from the financial core of the city just blocks from INTERSTICE’s Polk Street office on Sutter.

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INTERSTICE Architects’ MIRA SF rooftops and multitiered streetscapes was published in Landscape Architecture Magazine. The new, 40-story condominium tower on San Francisco’s Bayfront as the first building in the City to use recycled water from showers and sinks to irrigate its extensive green roofs and multi -leveled landscapes designed by INTERSTICE. Studio Gang (High-rise architects) engaged with INTERSTICE to bring sustainability and water reclamation at high-rise scale to San Francisco on this LEED Gold level development where re-filtered grey water establishes mini urban ecologies on the extensive roofs and within the surrounding streetscapes.

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 grove of 350-year-old Douglas fir trees into which the new home was surgically inserted so the homeowners could share their shelter with nesting bald eagles and other wildlife. This book features the nation’s leading architects and their unique projects, and INTERSTICE is thrilled to be a part of the publication.

The Mission House has been featured in the Homes section of the New York Times. The article, titled “A Modern Patchwork in San Francisco,” documents the story of the house’s development into a “work-in-progress” experiment conducted over a decade.

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 personal, belonging & ownership, all intersect to shape a city.  PARK(ing) Day acts as the creative reimagining of the property “produced” by paying a parking meter to effectively “lease” a temporary Public space.  Through these Installations, INTERSTICE creates each year a Mini-Park for people to enjoy in the middle of the city.

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 better celebrate the cable car’s inherent value to the city of San Francisco while also creating a safer, more easily navigable experience. See more about the cable car stop here.

The Saratoga Beach House was featured on EXTREME HOMES on HGTV in an exciting Episode 5, of Season 4 where we were able to fly through this unusual home that hovers above the untouched riparian Shore line overlooking the Canadian Rockies across the Salish Sea off the rugged Coastline of British Columbia. INTERSTICE Designed the home and reparative Landscape to ensure a sustainable shoreline could be maintained, while honoring the 400 year old Douglass Firs that grow right through the structure to provide a natural buffer from the coastal rainforests battering storms. From Japan to New Mexico, from Denmark to Australia by way of an old English abbey this episode focusses on outstanding examples of extreme architecture on a global scale.

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 under-utilized urban space to create supportive green infrastructures for place-making and programmed use. Zoee presented our Lower Polk Alleyways District Vision Plan, ongoing initiatives and completed projects as case studies,  partnering with city agencies, private developers, and local stakeholders.

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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 just been featured in a book published by McSweeney’s with the Hawkins Project and edited by The International Alliance for Youth Writing Centers, titled Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire. The idea behind the publication is that kids deserve welcoming—and weird—places to write and be creative. We are honored to have been a part of this important community-serving project and to be included in this beautiful compendium of architecture for our next generation.