The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) just announced the winners of its Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many…

The AIA San Francisco Chapter just announced six winning firms and two honorable mentions of New Practices San Francisco. New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. It is a platform for recognizing and…

The winners of the 2009 AIA San Francisco Design Awards have recently been honored at the gala of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter. Projects by local design firms were awarded in eight categories: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Energy + Sustainability, Integrate Practice, Unbuilt Design, Urban Design, Young…

The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) in partnership with California College of the Arts (CCA Architecture/URBANlab), HOK and Matarozzi/Pelsinger Builders present 10x10 Cities: Green Facts, Challenges, Futures on view April 17 – May 15, 2009 at 3A Gallery, San Francisco. 10x10 Cities: Green Facts,…

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) and Henry Urbach, SFMOMA’s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is unorthodox in that it combines two approaches to showing architecture in a gallery: video documentation of the studio’s built work and an environment,…

Recipient known as distinguished educator The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) named Adèle Naudé Santos, FAIA, as the 2009 recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has…

A new exhibition opens this week in San Francisco that profiles the work of today’s finest design talent. The 2008 Spark Design Awards put more than 360 entries under the microscope last month, with the best being selected by a jury of prestigious names in global design. The winners are…

Firms Bringing Event to Life Include: SOM, IDEO, SMWM, BCV Architects, ROMA Design, Marta Fry Landscape, David Baker + Partners, CCS Architecture, Natoma Architects Leaders in the Bay Area’s architecture and design worlds have stepped to the plate to design the inaugural edition of