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 foster communities with examples from two distinct American cities, New York and San Francisco.  See more information here: Challenges and Opportunities for Landscape Architects in Affordable and Supportive Housing

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 as the best installation on design, concept, and overall experience. See the AIASF Mentorship blog post here.

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 residential design from the architect’s point of view. Get your tickets here!

SEE DWELL MAGAZINE ARTICLE HERE

The Mission:House has been featured in the February 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine.  The cover story showcases the house’s many innovative sustainable design solutions and includes an interview with IA’s Andrew Dunbar and Zoee Astrachan.

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 an inclusive safe-haven for the imaginations of the neighborhood.

The Saratoga Beach House has been published in the Home and Garden section of the New York Times.  The article describes the house and the story of its completion, and features and article with Andrew Dunbar of Interstice Architects, the clients, Shaun and Stephanie Mesher.

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.

826 Valencia Tenderloin won the 2017 Contract Magazine 2017 Interiors:Education award. The project, which was done in collaboration with Gensler, MK Think, Architect Jonas Kellner, supports the creative writing skills of under-resourced children in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Contract design award jury said of the project, “This inspired interior promotes creativity 
and exploration, creating an unexpected wonderland with a richness of spirit. One is transported into a tactile fantasy space that 
is full of surprises. It is exciting that they did 
this on a very minimal budget.”

The 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center was featured in the January issue of RETROFIT. The in-depth article features details about the unique collaborative design and construction process for the project, which included over 60 local subcontractors and designers with their time and materials donated in-kind or at cost, resulting in over 2 million dollars that will be spent on creating more free programs for children. You can read the entire article here.

INTERSTICE principal Andrew Dunbar recently sat down with DSEGNARE, a  San Francisco – based design showroom who featured the interview on their blog. Andrew talked all things San Francisco design; including its status as an innovation hub, as well as the current challenges the city faces. Read the full interview on DSEGNARE’s blog.