450 Architects works with forward-thinking clients to design schools, homes, and healthy living environments. Our culture of innovation and advocacy informs a collaborative, hands-on approach to soulful, ecological design. The 6,800 sf Argonne Child Development Center provides new classrooms and administration space for the San Francisco Unified School District.
An ambitious couple with growing children gives their new home a complete energy overhaul. With sustainability as a top priority, the project will soon achieve Passive House, LEED, and Living Building Challenge Certification. For Contraband Coffee's second location, MoME architects of San Luis Obispo teamed up with 450 Architects to deliver a warm and welcoming coffee shop in the South of Market district of San Francisco.
An innovative building for an innovative school! A former communications office building is reinvented as a warm and inviting campus for San Francisco Waldorf High School and achieves LEED Gold Certification. The David Bushnell Center for Athletics & Community provides a long-held aspiration for a multipurpose space for the San Francisco Waldorf School and will be a hub for athletics, performances, lectures, and community gatherings.
An ambitious couple with growing children gives their new home a complete energy overhaul. With sustainability as a top priority, the project will soon achieve Passive House, LEED, and Living Building Challenge Certification. For Contraband Coffee's second location, MoME architects of San Luis Obispo teamed up with 450 Architects to deliver a warm and welcoming coffee shop in the South of Market district of San Francisco.
An innovative building for an innovative school! A former communications office building is reinvented as a warm and inviting campus for San Francisco Waldorf High School and achieves LEED Gold Certification. The David Bushnell Center for Athletics & Community provides a long-held aspiration for a multipurpose space for the San Francisco Waldorf School and will be a hub for athletics, performances, lectures, and community gatherings.
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Every design process begins with listening, observation, and reflection. As architects we seek to understand the rhythm of the day, week, and month. We start with the people who inhabit or use that space and ask: What is the spirit and the soul of the site? What makes this place special? What activities happen, or could happen here?
The fundamentals behind the various green building rating systems - LEED, Greenpoint, Passive House, and the Living Building Challenge - have been the focus of our practice for over two decades. We have provided LEED consulting services for architects and contractors along with our own projects. Beyond that, our firm has also helped draft guidelines, codes, and policies for the State of California and multiple Bay Area cities.
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Elaine Radcliffe
Aug 26, 2018
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