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UC Berkeley Creekside Center

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The Chinese American International School is a dual Chinese-English dual language immersion school in San Francisco; the new middle school campus is an adaptive reuse of two abandoned buildings into a dynamic and collaborative new educational environment.

Chinese American International School

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The Commonwealth Club of California’s new location on San Francisco’s waterfront is in an existing historic structure built in 1910 and was the site of the 1934 Longshoreman’s strike; the building has an aggressive sustainability agenda and is targeting LEED Gold certification, and provides meeting spaces, an auditorium, a library, and a boardroom.

Commonwealth Club of California

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Cavallo Point- the Lodge at the Golden Gate is the result of an adaptive reuse and new construction effort at Fort Baker, a former military fortification at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito- the complex is LEED Gold certified and the historic and new buildings are sensitively integrated into the National Register Historic district. Cavallo Point is the first new National Park Lodge in over a decade.

Cavallo Point - The Lodge at the Golden Gate

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An abandoned bus station in San Francisco was converted into The California College of the Arts, a highly sustainable, solar-heated interdisciplinary educational environment.

California College of the Arts

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The Bay School of San Francisco is located in a historic landmark Army barracks in the Presidio, intertwining historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and sustainability. The new, independent high school is designed to require less than half the energy consumption required to construct and operate a new school building of comparable size.

The Bay School of San Francisco

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The Bay Area Discovery Museum campus in Sausalito, a nationally recognized children’s museum, has been renovated and expanded to sensitively integrate a new theater building and exhibit areas within the historic context of Fort Baker.

Bay Area Discovery Museum

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The historic Baker and Hamilton building in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco was renovated to include modern office workspaces, along with the addition to the new office building at 625 Townsend, creating a juxtaposition between the past and the present, and a contemporary reinterpretation of the warehouse district.

625 Townsend Street / Baker and Hamilton Building

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UC Davis Walker Hall Graduate Student Center

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The Thoreau Center for Sustainability in San Francisco is a landmark renovation of the historic Army Hospital in the Presidio, and one of the first public/private partnership projects in the new National Park. This non-profit center is a national model for integrating sustainable design strategies within the National Register historic structures.

Thoreau Center for Sustainability

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Pier 2 at the historic army base Fort Mason Center is currently being renovated into the new San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Center.

San Francisco Art Institute at Fort Mason

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