The Sister Lillian Murphy Community was designed to foster community among the building’s resident families and connect them to the surrounding neighborhood. Four distinct building wings create small, identifiable ‘micro-neighborhoods’ within the building. [EVENT ENDED]

Hop on your bicycles, scooters, or BayWheels to tour some recent high-density, mixed-income, mixed-use developments with David Baker, FAIA, and the DBA team. We’ll visit Mason on Mariposa, Potrero 1010, and 855 Brannan—market-rate communities that integrate new homes and businesses, provide public open space, promote neighborhood connectivity, and bring sensitive density to the Potrero Hill and SOMA neighborhoods.

San Francisco drapes its urban grid over 48 hills. The streets undulate like rollercoasters, snaking around contours of land, rupturing to reveal concrete walls bisected by vegetated staircases.

NOTE: RSVP's for this event has reached capacity and are no longer taking sign-ups. Questions? contact info@centersf.org

At the heart of the Pier 70 development in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood is a historic former shipbuilding warehouse, built in 1941, known simply as Building 12. This unique structure nods to its past life while responding to the community’s desire for a modern-day makers showcase, gathering space, neighborhood market hall, and spaces for today’s creative office workforce.

In the SoMA district of San Francisco, Tahanan Supportive Housing provides permanent studio homes for adults who have experienced homelessness in the city. This is the prototype of what is hoped to model a new financing structure for permanent supportive housing—expediting the development process, making it more efficient, and reducing cost by jumpstarting construction using philanthropic funding.

The pandemic caused retail vacancies to climb to new highs in SoMa with the exodus of tech workers. To combat urban blight and utilize the arts to reinvigorate SoMa Pilipinas Cultural District’s plans to create Mission Street as its first commercial corridor, multiple City agencies teamed up with Kultivate Labs to create Balay Kreative Studios. NOTE: This is a FREE Event; RSVP required at https://balaykreative22.eventbrite.com

**THIS TOUR HAS BEEN CANCELLED** The San Francisco Pinterest Wayfinding project uses a light graphic application to reformat the Pinterest offices for the future of hybrid work. Based upon the existing column grid, a numerical system of bays defines the perimeter workspaces and the shared social spaces within the core.

The recently completed project is a transformative repositioning of the former Macy's Men's Store, located steps from Union Square in San Francisco. The existing seven-story building was originally designed for a single retail tenant in the early 1970s.

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For nearly a decade, the Nolli Walking Tour has provided Bay Area residents and visitors alike a pathway through San Francisco’s public and semi-public spaces of past and present. Inspired by Giambattista Nolli’s innovative 1748 map of Rome, the Nolli walking tour engages the public with urban environs that go beyond sidewalks and streets. This year’s tour focuses on Rincon Hill, from South Park around through the East Cut neighborhood to the Embarcadero and South Beach.

Join design team members, community organizers and project sponsors for a panel discussion on the process that led to the creation of Casa Adelante at 2060 Folsom, a mixed-use building with 127 permanently affordable homes. Learn about the history of the site and how the community vision was honored throughout the phases of the project.

A light fixture reimagined from a reclaimed buoy and an 800-pound operable wall that allows a cook to hide her messy kitchen from dinner guests, these are two of many custom-crafted elements created by Lundberg Design as personal gifts to their clients.