IA Staff Volunteer at GLIDE in Tenderloin
INTERSTICE took a break from the office to volunteer at GLIDE – a nonprofit located in the Tenderloin whose mission is to create a radically inclusive, just and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization. For one afternoon, IA traded CAD files and trace paper for serving spoons […]
826 Valencia – Tenderloin Center Undergoing Construction
Construction is under way on the 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center. Located on the corner of Leavenworth and Golden Gate in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, INTERSTICE Architects, along with an energetic team of contractors, suppliers, and other professionals is working with 826 Valencia to create their new space, supporting under-resourced students in developing […]
IA Balloon Design at AIA San Francisco NEXT Gala
This year at the 2015 AIA SF Next Conference, INTERSTICE teamed up with the AIA to transform the SF County Fair Building for the NEXT Conference gala and AIA SF Annual Meeting. In collaboration with Studio VARA, IA deployed various sized balloons ranging from 24 inches to eight foot diameter weather balloons; and an array of lighting elements from theatre lighting, and projectors […]
Bay Area Impact Challenge #Vote826
INTERSTICE is extremely proud to be working with the incredible team at 826 Valencia on a new tutoring center in the Tenderloin at 180 Golden Gate Avenue. 826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. […]
PARK(ing) Day 2015 at INTERSTICE
On Friday, September 18th, the parking spot outside of the INTERSTICE office on Sutter Street in San Francisco was dominated by the presence of inflatable dancing tube men, or “Air Dancers” in celebration of Parking Day. These Air Dancers were quite simply, the most hilarious, exuberant objects conceivable and brought joy, laughter, and awe to those […]
INTERSTICE Architects PARK(ing) Day 2015 – This Friday, September 18th!
YOU ARE INVITED! Please join INTERSTICE Architects in celebrating PARK(ing) Day 2015 this Friday, September 18th. As a hybridized architecture and landscape architecture firm, much of our work is steeped in the creation and design of public spaces and how they improve the urban condition; and we are proud yet again to share in PARK(ing) […]
INTERSTICE Participates in Construction Workforce Initiative Program (CIWI)
This summer, INTERSTICE Architects was proud to participate in the Construction Workforce Initiative (CIWI) Internship program. INTERSTICE participated in the CIWI program through our role as Landscape Architect on the Transbay Block 1 Project at 160 Folsom Street, being developed by Tishman Speyer and as the architectural team led by Studio Gang Architects. CIWI is […]
INTERSTICE Begins work on the Lower Polk Alleyways District Initiative
In coordination with Lower Polk Neighbors, LPN, and the newly established Lower Polk Community Benefit District, CBD, INTERSTICE Architects has begun working with the community on an Improvement Initiative to create and define a new Polk Alleyways District in the heart of the Lower Polk neighborhood. There are six uniquely situated Alleys in the Lower Polk […]
INTERSTICE Designs interactive furnishings for the San Francisco Street Food Festival 2015
This year the SFSFF is at Forest City’s Pier 70 on the SF waterfront. Now in our sixth year of partnership with La Cocina, INTERSTICE Architects designed and led the volunteer construction effort to reanimate thousands of shipping palettes and recycled plywood to create banquettes, serpentine benches, bars and entire islands for stage seating, eating, […]
IA Sunset Parklet Wins AIASF Urban Design Award
We are extremely excited to be a winner this year at the SFAIA Architectural Awards Gala. INTERSTICE receives the Urban Design Award for 2015 for its Sunset Parklet, which was featured in the NACTO International Design of Cities conference last fall. The Sunset Parklet challenges the stereotypical “café patio” to leverage a complex program into a singular and synthetic sculptural expression that prioritizes functionality over the figural. The pro-bono design project is a monolithic “riff” on the diversity of SF’s street sections – by which four adjacent “streets” undulate and double back to create a rich interplay of ground, seats, lounge chairs, tables, benches, and planters.
