Services: Design

Economical Solutions. Local Expertise. Sustainable choices. Design is our core business and the basis of our expertise. We bring it all to bear on helping you satisfy your goals for your next project.

In addition to new building design in a variety of materials and styles, we have extensive experience with renovations, historic preservation, seismic upgrades, and repairs.

Some of our most successful projects have been the least conventional. We've helped clients investigate alternative materials and systems such as strawbale and repurposed shipping containers. We provided a sculptor with a hidden structure that allowed her to stand giant natural basalt crystals in a garden setting.

Example Projects:

• Historic Grocery Store Seismic Upgrade, International Boulevard, Oakland, California, 2010. Vargas Greenan Architecture

• Seismic Upgrade of Historic 5-story brick apartment building, Downtown Oakland, 2009

• New Residence, Montara, California, 2008. Anderson Anderson Architecture

• Historic Fox Theater and Oakland School for the Arts Complex, 2007. Renovation and Seismic Upgrade