Valley House is a 2023 house remodel in San Francisco, California, by Studio BBA. The project restores a 1910 Victorian while opening the rear of the home to wider Bay views and a lighter daily rhythm. A restrained palette of honed Carrera marble, pale gray cabinetry, black steel, and bleached red oak gives the interior its calm, edited feel.
Founder’s Inc. turns a San Francisco office inside Fort Mason into a working base for startup training and maker-driven exchange. Studio BBA, working in 2023, treats the National Historic Landmark with a light hand, keeping the vaulted top-floor volume open for public use while shaping rooms for research, recording, and hands-on fabrication.
Sightglass Coffee – 20th Street brings a light-filled café to San Francisco, CA, United States. Studio BBA shapes the 2014 project around a double-height warehouse shell, pairing marble, plaster, teak, and dark brass with the easy circulation of a working coffee bar and roastery. Custom chandeliers, a chevron-patterned ceiling, and a wraparound banquette give the room a measured rhythm. The result feels practical, but never spare.
Sightglass Coffee – Divisadero is a restaurant in San Francisco, CA, United States, designed by Studio BBA. Housed in a 100-plus-year-old Edwardian, the café pairs restored clerestory windows and a new walk-up service window with a fully customized interior. Tailored lighting, joinery, furniture, and equipment keep the room precise, while accessibility and structural work sit quietly underneath.
The Mill turns a café into a familiar domestic scene. In San Francisco, CA, United States, Studio BBA shapes the restaurant around the feeling of a first bright kitchen, with mixed woods, white finishes, and generous daylight. Skylights bring light across the tables, while a custom soffit concentrates it over the bakery and barista work area, keeping the room practical without losing its homey reference.
Turtle Rock House is a ground-up residence in Los Angeles, CA, United States, designed by Studio BBA for a family of four. The house is shaped around natural light, park views, and a calm daily rhythm. Skylights, a central great room, and a clear separation of shared and private rooms give the project its quiet logic.
Court House is a 2025 house in Piedmont, CA, United States, by Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design. The complete renovation turns the existing structure into a light-filled interior organized around three courtyards. White walls, rift oak, black dyed wood, and colored stone give the home a restrained but tactile finish.
Boxed Set in Orinda, California, United States, by Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design, reworks a bent-boomerang suburban ranch house into a clearer sequence of rooms and thresholds. A skylit central volume organizes the kitchen and dining room, while a street-side box marks the entry and a detached garage with ADU completes the private courtyard enclosure. Natural light reaches deep into the plan, reducing the need for artificial lighting during the day.
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