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San Francisco Apartments: The Ultimate Renters Guide

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Views from a 100 Van Ness apartment in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood. Introduction and neighborhood guides by Katie Morell San Francisco’s rolling hills, Bay views, beaches and cosmopolitan feel make it an aspirational place to live. It has also earned it a LEED Gold rating.

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How to Use the Most Stylish Color of the Year: Black

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

This San Francisco penthouse is sleek, yet cozy. ” If you treat it as a neutral paint color, it will create a lot of design options. ” If you treat it as a neutral paint color, it will create a lot of design options. Here are some of the trendiest ways to use the color in your next decorating project.

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Inspiration: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Perfect Bath

On my recent trip to San Francisco to celebrate the opening of our new Waterworks showroom, I decided to take a little extra time to visit SFMoMA and experience their new 10-story building and galleries designed by the international architecture firm of Snohetta. The SFMoMA has now become the biggest space in the U.S.

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Bring the Sun in This Winter With a Sunroom

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

In any event, Spicher says you need to decide how you want to use the room before you choose the finishes like paint colors or flooring. San Francisco sunroom. Image: Leonid Furmansky Architectural Photographer. Image: Vincentsen-Blasi Architecture. Image: LDa Architecture & Interiors. Austin sunroom.

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Janet Bennett: A Life in Design

Making Tile Modern

By her own admission, she’d never claimed credit for the murals which were installed in 1961, when she was working for the architectural firm of Pereira & Luckman. A Janet Bennett Painting. Once completed, she was called to Madrid for further study before finding herself back in the states, working in architecture. “It

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It’s Done! The Making of the Heath Building.

Heath Ceramics

Heath San Francisco opened its doors in 2012, with the tile factory in full-swing by 2013. Even seemingly peripheral architectural components, like ducting and process piping, are a key part of the beauty of the building. It’s hundreds of people working in dozens of trades. “We

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Straight out of Star Wars: The Architecture of LA’s New Lucas Museum

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

And the breathtakingly sleek, starship-esque architecture of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art , coming soon to Exposition Park in Los Angeles, would look right at home in its namesake’s signature film franchise. The building itself is generating some buzz, too, thanks to its innovative architecture.