Christiani Johnson Architects and MBH Architects Mixed-Use Project Underway Near Golden Gate Park
A new $33 million dollar residential/mixed-use retail project is now
underway on a 2.3 acre site located five blocks east of Golden Gate
Park in San Francisco. The site occupies an entire City block and is
bounded by Fulton, Masonic, McAllister Streets and Central Avenue. The
project team consists of Christiani Johnson Architects of San Francisco
as Design Architect, MBH Architects of Alameda as Architect of Record,
and James E. Roberts of the Obayashi Corporation in Danville as the
General Contractor.
This 337,000 square foot building will include 134 condominiums ranging in size from 600 square foot studios to 1350 square foot 2-bedroom units. The five 2 and 3-story residential buildings are clustered around a landscaped central courtyard with 62,000 square foot of retail space that will contain a grocery supermarket. The project will also provide 56,000 square feet of parking organized on one basement level and two above-grade levels with the 134 residential units located on top of the market and parking structure.
The building elements are designed to provide individual identities to the multiple structures, unifying the overall project design, and ensuring a fit within the surrounding neighborhood context. The slightly varying heights of the buildings combined with the residential motifs and exterior wall projections, create a human scale environment avoiding the appearance of a single large imposing building mass. Foundation work is in progress and estimated construction time is twenty months with completion scheduled for the Spring of 2002.
MBH Architects was established in 1989 and now employs 170 professionals specializing in retail, hospitality, commercial, housing and restaurant projects both in the United States and abroad. In addition to Alameda, MBH Architects has offices in Newport Beach and Las Vegas, Nevada.