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Redpoint Ventures came to IwamotoScott with the aim of establishing a new urban presence for their highly regarded  Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm at South Park in San Francisco. Part of the contextual legacy of this desirable locale is that the Wired magazine was founded in the vicinity. Bruce Damonte Our design is tailored to meet this aim, creating a bespoke new workplace and event space for them within a 4,200sf raw brick and timber ground floor space fronting South Park in San Francisco. Four main design elements anchor the new space and act as a complimentary set of custom fabricated components in dialogue with each other  –  these include: Bruce Damonte 1) A 35 foot long Douglas Fir co... More

"Cellular Origami" is the name of IwamotoScott's design for the new facade for UCSF's 3rd Street Garage in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood that was produced in response to an invited design competition. The competition brief was focused on creating a new facade to transform UCSF's 3rd Street Garage, which had its earlier facade made of channel glass removed a number of years ago. Craig Scott Craig Scott The project was initiated to both bring a stronger identity and sense of brand to UCSF's campus edge, and to create a dialogue with the high-profile new architecture rising directly across 3rd Street including the new Warriors NBA Arena (Chase Center) and new Uber HQ. Craig Scott David Lloyd Craig Scott Ce... More

Penumbra is a work of Public Art situated on Market Street, San Francisco's urban spine. In addition to our scope as designers of the Serif condo interiors, lobby, common spaces and amenity spaces for this large new mixed use development, IwamotoScott was commissioned by Group i to create this signature piece of immersive sculpture. Craig Scott Situated in a courtyard between the historic Warfield Theater and  the Serif residences / Line hotel, Penumbra's form takes cues from the scientific phenomena of penumbra, 'a partial shadow between regions of full shadow and full illumination'. Craig Scott Penumbra functionally defines the passage to the second lobby entrance to the Line hotel from Market Street, and offers  sha... More

IwamotoScott's design scope includes several key aspects of the new mixed-use development by GROUP i / L37 at 950 Market Street in Downtown San Francisco, including: all interior architecture and design for the Serif 242 residential units, Serif common spaces and amenities including the residential lobby, elevator lobbies, corridors, mail room, gym and rooftop community clubhouse;  the Serif residential exterior entrance canopies at Market Street and Turk Street;  The Line Hotel exterior entrance canopy off the Turk Street plaza;  and Penumbra, a public artwork canopy at the Line Hotel's beirgarden patio and entrance from Market Street. Jason O'Rear Jason O'Rear Upon entry into the lobby from Market Street, a large... More

IwamotoScott's interior architecture scope for Prism Apartments, a mixed-use residential development in Downtown San Francisco by Olympic Residential and Tidewater Capital at 1028 Market Street, includes the main lobby at Market Street, leasing offices, elevator lobbies, corridors, mail room, gym and   co-working /lounge, and the rear lobby off Golden Gate Ave. Craig Scott Craig Scott The lobby is defined around a double height space and sculptural stair, above which spans double-curved ceiling canopy made with interlocking wood slats. A custom steel and frosted glass retail entrance opens off of the main lobby entrance. At the built-in seating along Market Street a back-lit wood slat feature wall reflects and re-inscribes t... More

PS House densifies the inner block of an already dense San Francisco neighborhood (North Beach), while bringing an unexpected degree of spaciousness, natural light and connection with the outside to a small 1200sf urban house. It is a speculative project aimed at maximizing the potential of an existing dilapidated structure at the rear of the property, which was demolished but whose small footprint could not be expanded. The overall site’s void space is strategized in terms of natural light and ventilation, and includes three spaces: the courtyard separating the new house from the existing Edwardian building fronting on Powell Street; an exterior entrance passageway that connects this courtyard to the street; and an upper level south-... More

IwamotoScott designed this new ground-up house in the Noe Valley neighborhood, as a speculative infill development for a builder in San Francisco whom we've worked together with on several projects. The site is located on a steep street, but has a fairly level topography within the lot, newly opened up by the demolition of a dilapidated small house at the rear of the property. Caption The subtly-angled facade design was created by adapting to  different setbacks of the neighboring houses, and as a  response to the downhill views to the east. Exterior materials include both stained clear cedar vertical boards alternating with blackened spacer boards, aluminum windows with clear cedar casing, and cast-in-place concrete site wo... More

This is Bloomberg’s first flagship Tech Hub on the West Coast. The new space, completed in May 2015, is both a workplace for Bloomberg’s software engineers and an event space to help foster connections between Bloomberg and Silicon Valley. Bruce Damonte The design juxtaposes new elements against the exposed raw materials of the building shell and translates the form and geometry of the exterior ornamentation. This approach contrasts the existing rough material palette of the exposed concrete and brick interior with a more refined combination of oak flooring and millwork, glass, steel and felt cladding. Bruce Damonte Upon entry, you encounter one of the main design elements: a porous wood “liner” that acco... More

IwamotoScott were approached with the challenge of re-positioning of 160 Spear Street, including the public lobby, public plaza and two entrances. The existing building is a commercial highrise from the 1980s that houses UC Extension on upper floors, in Downtown San Francisco. IwamotoScott The building has a through-block lobby connecting Main Street to the south and Spear Street to the north via a landscaped plaza that is one of the city's POPOS spaces (Privately Owned Public Outdoor Space). IwamotoScott Our design re-shapes and re-clads the existing lobby, transforming the dark and dated pink granite walls, low stepped ceiling and incidental reception desk into a more vibrant, flowing space. A mural artist created site-specifi... More

The new Twitch HQ occupies eight floors of the new 350 Bush building in downtown San Francisco. Video gaming being at the center of Twitch's universe, we started the conceptual design approach with an initial round of design research and studies reinterpreting the characters, patterns and spaces of early video games. These studies informed both the macro and micro scale design solutions for the new HQ space. Bruce Damonte  sculptural central communication stair ascends from the ground level reception lobby. The stair starts out as tube-like portal that employees and visitors alike enter through. The stair, defined by a black metal outer jacket and warm wood inner liner, opens up as it rises, connecting the main amenity and visito... More

This newest Pinterest headquarters, in a new six story concrete structure in San Francisco's SOMA district, is positioned to create an urban campus with their earlier workspaces completed down the street. It is similarly inspired by the ongoing evolution of the company's web platform design - clean, simple, intuitive, and a canvas for creativity. The main lobby at ground level constitutes one of the city's POPOS spaces -- i.e.  a Privately Owned Public Outdoor Space. It is glassed-in, but has an operable corner that opens to a new landscaped mid-block alleyway (still under construction). Within this double-height lobby we designed a new cafe called The Point that is run by Pinterest. Similar to the earlier HQ design, a bespoke wood cei... More

The new Pinterest headquarters is inspired by the redesign of the company's web platform — clean, simple, intuitive. One design goal was to create a space somewhat open-ended and slightly incomplete – so as to allow for interventions and installations by the Pinterest employees over time (continuing the strong D.I.Y. aspect of the company culture present since the early days). Another key concept that guided the project’s space-making concerns the notion and act of knitting (another core value/ethic of the company). In the design of the space, we explored how knitting could be interpreted in different ways – for instance, how the project could spatially ‘knit’ together the various communities within Pinte... More

Heavybit Industries is a co-working space designed for early stage companies making cloud software developer products. The Heavybit program curates, fosters and promotes innovation and solution-finding through invited presentations, public events, education, advising, and inter-developer collaboration. The client brief aimed to transform the existing former warehouse into a collaborative workspace. This includes on the first floor a large kitchen, collective dining area for daily catered lunches that could double for speaker presentations, conference room, bike storage, and informal work areas; and on the two upper floors an open array of desks, comfortable and intimate meeting areas, bar height workspace and conference rooms. The client al... More

ONE KEARNY LOBBY / Lightfold, San Francisco, CA   Lightfold is a lobby design for the new One Kearny commercial development in the heart of downtown San Francisco’s Gallery District, adjacent to the museums of the Yerba Buena Arts District. The project is conceived and funded as architecture as public art, and constitutes the ‘percent for art’ requirement for the building as an integral piece of the architecture.   Lightfold is a fully functioning lobby and site-specific installation that draws its concept from the modulated ornamental surfaces found in San Francisco historic buildings such as the turn-of-thecentury building that is part the larger One Kearny project. It begins with coffers that traditionally... More