The Final Countdown to SFSFF 2014
Recycled pallets, zip ties, gloves, Folsom Street and the IA team: it’s time for the San Francisco Street Food Festival!
Come join INTERSTICE Architects in celebrating the final year of the San Francisco Street Food Festival on Folsom Street. IA has designed and led the volunteer effort for the fifth year running, transforming Folsom Street in the Mission neighborhood to a dining district filled with people, food and festivities.
IA’s street furnishings design re-purposes shipping pallets to create banquettes for seating, eating, socializing, dining and drinking.
Thank you to La Cocina, the festival’s organizer, for your community leadership and inspired support of local food!
For more information about the schedule for the day, head over to the SFSFF website. The festival runs from 11 am – 7 pm.
INTERSTICE hosts Dutch Architects on Summit tour at Mission: House
INTERSTICE hosted this esteemed group of renowned Dutch architects at MISSION:house this September. Since 2010, Dutch Architect and Designer Edwin Oostmeijer has organized and led the Amsterdam-based Summit Tour, which highlights key works of Northern California Modern Architecture.
For The Summit’s fourth annual study visit to view examples of “NorCalMod,” MISSION:house hosted the distinguished guests and demonstrated a contemporary vision of this classic, architectural theme. The celebrated, signature blending of architecture with local and regional geographic influences that characterizes the Modern Architecture of Northern California was a highlight for the visiting Dutch architects, designers and developers, who traveled to experience and learn about local variations of this motif. The tour features project-based housing interspersed with private homes. “The Summit,” named for an intriguing apartment building in the Russian Hill neighborhood, refers to “the peak” of architecture both metaphorically and literally.
INTERSTICE Architects Installs the SF SFF / La Cocina Night Market
INTERSTICE Architects is thrilled to support La Cocina and participate in our 4th annual Street Food Festival!
This year we designed and installed a 300-foot-long sinuous bench, called the INTERSTICE banqu(ette), which meanders down the center of the San Francisco Street Food Festival’s second annual Night Market.
Over 500 pallets were zip-tied together to form an interlocking, modular lounge furnishing and bar-table kiosks with heat-lamps for people to gather, eat and celebrate the Market.
With 6 different global regions of foods represented, the Night Market is an opportunity for San Franciscans to taste the best the world has to offer, all prepared and sold by local vendors. The benches are color coded by global region and display way-finding signage also by INTERSTICE. Local artists painted the coverings for the seats.
This is the launch party for the San Francisco Street Food Festival, which spans 6 blocks along Folsom Street between 20th and 26th Streets.
Check out the team at work!
INTERSTICE's design in action
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- INTERSTICE’s design in action
San Francisco Street Food Festival 2012
Interstice Architects’ photostream on Flickr.
IA was happy to assist La Cocina in preparing for the San Francisco Street Food Festival which took place this past Saturday in the Mission! We helped the festival with the design and construction of over 120 platform benches made from almost 500 locally sourced recycled wooden palettes. We hope you had a chance to visit the festival, and click the link above to take a look at our Flickr set of photos from the event. We would like to thank all the food vendors, volunteers, and especially La Cocina for organizing another successful food festival!
Planning a Food Festival
IA was happy to play host to La Cocina’s kick off meeting to help organize this years annual San Francisco Street Food Festival, which will be held Saturday August 18th. The meeting brought together La Cocina, IA, and more than 30 planning and logistical volunteers made up of event planners, chefs, bar + restaurant owners, social media specialists, designers, and food enthusiasts. Here are a few images from the meeting, and if you’re interested, click here to get involved!
Spring Party 2012 – Thanks for coming!
Spring Party 2012, a set on Flickr.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone that stopped by our office on May 17th for our annual spring party! The event was a great success – we had a great time and we sincerely hope you did too. We’ve uploaded some select photos to our Flickr photostream, so be sure to check out the gallery – and if you have any photos you would like to share with us, you can post those on our facebook page.
Join us at our Spring Party!
Come join us at our office to celebrate spring! Enjoy refreshing French 75s, delicious food prepared by local food vendors, music, friends, and an indoor spring swing! Visit our Facebook page for event details and be sure to let us know you’re coming by shooting an email to rsvp@intersticearchitects.com!
SF Street Food Festival 2011
SF Street Food Festival 2011, a gallery on Flickr.
Recently, IA was pleased to get involved and help La Cocina with their 3rd Annual San Francisco Street Food Festival — an event that showcases some of San Francisco’s best food from restaurants from across the Bay Area. Held in the lively Mission neighborhood, the festival features stalls from over 60 local restaurants and chefs, live music, drinks, and local vendors. The IA office helped La Cocina with the planning, organization, and assembly of temporary dining furniture made from easily sourced waste-stream materials, using items such as milk crates, plywood, and recycled wood palettes to construct tables and seating pods. Check out our Flikr Gallery, linked above, for photos of the festival and some of the furniture in action, and make sure to visit La Cocina’s website for more information on the Festival and their own incubator kitchen programs.
