Bay School Building 36

The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school which has operated out two buildings in the historic …

Consequential Disruptions in Transportation Infrastructure

Having moved to San Francisco from Boston months prior to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, I experienced firsthand the sudden destruction of much of the city’s infrastructure, including the irreparable damage to the elevated 50-foot-high two-level Embarcadero Freeway and the disruptions to transit access. This controversial piece of infrastructural highway, which was envisioned to create an expedited vehicular connection from the city’s Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge, bypassing the city grid, was at that point realized but only in part.

Floating and Energy-Independent Public Safety Architecture A Strategy of Resilience

Public safety facilities along our shores grow more vulnerable due to rising seas, which continue to threaten coastal communities and infrastructure with more frequent flooding and inundation. Designing public safety buildings—or retrofitting existing ones—as floating and energy-independent structures is a viable way to maximize resiliency and preserve continued operations.

Voids to Frame the View

Today, the Black Lava Fields is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Iceland. There is an existing visitor’s center, a simple building made up of container modules that house a gift shop and café. The Bee Breeders, architecture competition organizers, held this design competition to replace the existing building with a structure more worthy of this amazing environment.

JCDecaux SF Public Restrooms and Kiosks

San Francisco, CA
The confluence of San Francisco’s urban character, natural beauty and vibrant colors offers a unique context for the redesign of the City’s Public Restrooms and Advertising Kiosks. These next generation of people-centric amenities can both create a dialog with their urban and natural setting as well as become welcoming beacons for residents and visitors. Embracing a color pallet that reflects the lifecycle of California wild flowers, these proposed restroom and kiosk enclosures blend their respective programmatic functions with a vibrant graphic pattern to distinguish and signify their much-desired role within their immediate surroundings. 

San Francisco International Airport-The Big Idea Behind the Big Room at Terminal 1

A Conversation with Michael McGroarty, Ophelia Wilkins, and Ethen Wood
Q: Before we get into talking about the Big Room and what it is, let’s talk about the project it was built for.

Harvey Milk Plaza – Finalist

San Francisco, CA
Harvey Milk Plaza will serve as a welcoming door to the city’s historic Castro District and a destination to learn about the life (and times) of Harvey Milk. We envision the Plaza as an unified and integrated experiential memorial to inspire generations to come.
In collaboration with RHAA Landscape Architect and Catherine Wagner Studio

Lodi Bunkhouse

St. Helena, CA
The conversion of an existing industrial shed into living quarters for an extended family. The 4,500 square feet of interior space includes four bedrooms and large communal areas for artist’s gatherings.

Speaking in Tubes

For three days in early October, the 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival gave the public a chance to experience more than three dozen ideas for enhancing San Francisco’s main drag and creatively engaging people with the urban environment and with each other. Created by teams who answered a call for submissions last April, the installations ranged from an artistic ping-pong table to an enclosure containing homemade musical instruments to a hand-crank-powered box that distributed stories and artwork. Kuth Ranieri’s contribution, SonoGROTTO, was a pavilion made of hundreds of cardboard tubes, carved to create seats, windows, and an oculus that frames views to the sky.

San Francisco International Airport – Terminal 1C

San Francisco, CA
Kuth Ranieri teamed with Gensler on the design for the 1.1 million square-foot SFO Terminal 1 Center Renovation Project. Through design-build delivery with Hensel Phelps, the new terminal redeveloped one of the Airport’s oldest terminals to meet the needs of modern travelers and revolutionize the guest experience.

A Gensler / Kuth Ranieri Architects Joint Venture

Shishan Park Pavilions

Suzhou, China
Kuth Ranieri was engaged by Tom Leader Studio Landscape Architecture to design several pavilions for Lion Mountain Park in Suzhou, China.

Architect to TLS Landscape Architecture

SonoGROTTO

San Francisco, CA
A proposal for the 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival, SonoGROTTO creates a space of respite and repose on the busy sidewalk. Catering to a diverse range of ages, users and situations, SonoGROTTO hopes to provide space for reflection, refuge and a myriad of alternate uses which visitors bring to the piece.

Randall Museum Renovation

San Francisco, CA
Through coordination of architectural design, interpretive graphics, and live animal exhibits, we have organized various disciplines for the creation of a place of comprehensive scientific and artistic exploration.

In Joint Venture with Pfau Long Architecture

Balboa Pool Renovation

San Francisco, CA
The proposed design for Balboa Park Pool renovates the existing natatorium facilities in an economic way, leaving essential elements in place while enhancing the user experience and upgrading the structural and environmental systems to meet sustainable standards of performance.

In Joint Venture with ELS Architecture

San Francisco International Airport – Employee Cafe

San Francisco, CA
One of a number of “Enabling Projects” as part of the T1C Renovation, the project renovated a former Chinese restaurant, bordered on one side by an existing TSA security barrier. The design creates a “Pop Up” feeling to reflect the two year life span.
In Joint Venture with Gensler

Folding Water™: A Ventilated Levee for a Living Estuary

San Francisco Estuary and Delta, CA
Folding Water™ is a ventilated levee proposal designed to protect shorelines by regulating rising sea levels over the next 100 years caused by warming oceans.

SoundHENGE

Washington, D.C.
SoundHENGE is a global memorial, bringing attention to threatened environments and ecologies that are not confined by political or social boundaries, with a central collective space enhanced by integral sound and interactive media.

In collaboration with Bill Fontana of Resoundings

Martyr’s Square

Beirut, Lebanon
An expansion of Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square is defined by means of a roof-structure that houses an inverted landscape that grounds and intensifies various activities.

In Collaboration with Rodolphe el-Khoury (ReK Productions)

Mission Bay: A Proposal for a Green District Identity

San Francisco, CA
The proposal for this green district includes a pedestrian street bridge, skateboard park, aviary, eco-magnet high school, and CCA’s student and media center.

Vertical Wetlands

San Francisco, CA
Vertical Wetlands is a proposal that addresses San Francisco’s immediate water-related challenges.

AIDS Memorial Grove

San Francisco, CA
Our design strategy proposes to define and link the intimacy of the National Aids Memorial Grove to the encompassing daily urbanism of its surrounding city and culture.

In collaboration with Rodolphe el-Khoury (ReK Productions)

Harvey Milk Memorial Car

San Francisco, CA
This memorial streetcar is meant to connect the Castro District with downtown San Francisco. In this regard, the memorial, like Harvey Milk’s impact, is not confined to a particular district but transcends across boundaries within the city.

Tooth Spa

Sunnyvale, CA
San Francisco’s first LEED Silver certified dental office, the 2,400-square-foot suite creates an inviting presence for passersby, emphasizing the visual impact of the reception “living room.”

32 Dental

American Canyon, CA
Our strategy for 32 Dental focused on creating a calming, elegant dental care environment with an emphasis on green design.

Museum of the American Indian

Novato, CA
The Museum of the American Indian in Miwok Park, Novato, is the only cultural resource of its kind in the Bay Area protecting an exceptional collection of native artifacts.

LEF Offices / Gallery

Napa Valley, CA
Echoing the evident assembly of the historic stone shell, the walls are designed to portray their essential construction, a resonance between old and new.

In collaboration with Jim Jennings Architecture

Hillsborough Residence

Hillsborough, CA
The redesign of this Chicago-modernist home, designed in the 1970s, introduces a new narrative of materiality that renews the relationship between the building and the landscape by blurring boundaries indoors and outdoors.

GLBT History Museum

San Francisco, CA
In the Castro District, The GLBT History Museum is the first stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States and serves as a center for the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Transgender Historical Society to interpret the history of the GLBT communities.

In collaboration with Steve Const

Malama Learning Village

Malama, HI
The project integrates three distinct institutional programs under one roof: a high school, a community theater, and a conservation garden.

In collaboration with Rodolphe el-Khoury (Rek Productions)

CAMP: A Gateway Proposal Presidio Museum

San Francisco, CA
The CAMP Museum resolves the monumental spatial corridor by framing the north/south axis with flanking galleries and extending a contiguous greenway.

The Body in Repose

San Francisco, CA
This installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art revolved around themes of body, material, and fabrication.

Curated by Aaron Betsky

Guest House / Gallery

San Francisco, CA
The project is designed with the consideration of the building’s perimeter walls as display surfaces for art and utilizes industrial felt to enrich the domestic functions of this residence.

Wurster Residence Renovation

San Francisco, CA
The patterns and demands of contemporary life dictated the reconfiguration of key areas of the house. Architectural interventions accommodated the needs of the owners while maintaining the identity and experience of Wurster’s remarkable design.

Claremont Canyon Residence

Oakland, CA
Nestled in a valley at the base of Claremont Canyon, this 1937 2-story residence was originally designed by Bay Area architect John Ekin Dinwiddie. The renovation creates a modern addition that integrates seamlessly with the existing shell and injects the family’s character with modern craft.

Nob Hill Residence

San Francisco, CA
The house is sited on a narrow alley that transforms from street to garden at the building’s front door. The project falls between the grid of the city and the organic nature of a garden landscape.

Russian Hill Penthouse

San Francisco, CA
Our intention was to create an interior realm that establishes a seamless continuity with distant views of the landscape, creating a project that was to internalize the color, material and texture of the surrounding vistas of bay, mountain, city, and sky.

Park Presidio Residence

San Francisco, CA
Consisting of 6,500 sf of living space spread over four levels, this private residence was designed for a family of six. Sustainability and energy independence were integral to the conception and realization of this project.

Russian Hill Co-op

San Francisco, CA
This interior renovation of a 4,500 sf full floor unit provides modern living for a client with an extensive contemporary art collection as well as a home office. Situated in Russian Hill, the home commands a 360º view of San Francisco.

Napa Valley Residence

Napa Valley, CA
Anchored by a system of interdependent walls and enclosures that contain the domestic functions, its partitions are arranged in an open plan.

In collaboration with Jim Jennings Architecture

San Rafael Ranch

San Rafael, CA
The renovation of this midcentury ranch includes a remodel of a main house, guest house, and garden design. The strategies to open the home to the landscape include a new garden entry to connect front and back gardens and enlarged windows to maximize light and garden views.

Eco-Commons

Levittown, NY
The project is a socially and environmentally sustainable urban community of an inter-generational mixed-use development. It is a contiguous system of dwelling, education, recreation, ecology and energy production to create an active nexus for residents.

Russian Hill Apartment

San Francisco, CA
Subtle drifts in plan and section extend the movement from the interior to the distant landscape.

Notre Dame de Namur University Center

Belmont, CA
A proposal for a new student center for Notre Dame de Namur University, a Catholic University in Belmont, California.

In Joint Venture with Paulett Taggart Architects