Siegel & Strain Architects

Siegel & Strain Architects is pleased to be a sponsor of this year’s AIA East Bay Design Awards – we hope to see you at the gala this Thursday celebrating all the award winners! Tickets still available:?https://lnkd.in/gAaC6J9Z #AIAEastBay #DesignAwards #SiegelStrainArchitects #Architecture #CommunityDesign

Exciting news! On November 6th, Amanda Knowles AIA and Laura Levenberg will be at the @APWA NorCal Conference! Amanda, along with Eleanor Hollander, AICP from the City of Berkeley, will share insights from the Berkeley Civic Center revitalization, a project that brings community-focused uses back to an important historic district. Learn how they guided the project from robust community input to Council approval of a resilient and future-focused plan. If you’ll be there, let’s connect! #SiegelStrainArchitects #APWANorCal2024 #SustainableDesign #PublicWorks #CommunitySpaces #ResilientDesign #ArchitectureForCommunities #BuildingABetterFuture

Exciting news to share! Our Brisbane Library project has been shortlisted for the AIA East Bay 2024 Design Awards! Big thanks to AIA East Bay for the recognition—it’s great to see this community-focused project get some love. Looking forward to catching up with the AIAEB community at the Gala on 11/14 and celebrating some incredible work! Check out more about the project at https://lnkd.in/gAzArYN5? #AIAEastBay #DesignAwards #BrisbanePublicLibrary #CityofBrisbaneCA #SiegelStrainArchitects #KarinPayson_AD #Architecture #CommunityDesign

Susi Marzuola and Colin Searles are off to the California Library Association Annual Conference in Pasadena! This year’s theme, "Balancing Act: Self Care & Shelf Care," is all about finding harmony between personal well-being and creating spaces that serve the community—something we’re also passionate about. Hope to see you there! #SiegelStrainArchitects #CLA2024 #CLAConference2024 #CaliforniaLibraries #LibraryLove #LibraryArchitecture #SustainableDesign #CommunitySpaces

The new San Francisco Botanical Garden Nursery & Maintenance Facility in Golden Gate Park consolidates the Garden’s greenhouse, support spaces and growing grounds into one area – improving efficiency and workflow by separating public areas from back-of-house operations, while still allowing visitors a view of the buildings as they explore the Garden. At the heart of the facility is the all-electric greenhouse, one of the first in California. The all-electric strategy helped the project achieve a 70% EUI reduction from baseline. The 28’ x 120’ greenhouse positioned parallel to a pre-engineered, metal-framed Headhouse creates a protected outdoor work yard where staff toting plants and tools safely come and go. Site improvements include bioretention basins and permeable crushed stone paths to manage rainwater. These new professional photos by @CesarRubioPhotography capture how this donor-funded project advances the Botanical Garden’s mission to connect people to plants, the planet, and each other! More on our website: https://lnkd.in/gfHkURb5 Client: Gardens of Golden Gate Park? Project Manager: Equity Community Builders, LLC Contractor: Roebuck Construction Services, Inc. Landscape: Bay Tree Design, inc. Civil: Lotus Water Structural: IDA Structural Engineers, Inc. Mechanical: Guttmann & Blaevoet Consulting Engineers Greenhouse Supplier: Van Wingerden Greenhouses? Photography: Cesar Rubio Photography #SanFranciscoBotanicalGarden #GoldenGatePark #NurseryAndMaintenanceFacility #SustainableArchitecture #AllElectricGreenhouse #SiegelStrainArchitects #PlantConservation #BioRetention #HeadhouseDesign #EcoFriendlyConstruction

25 of our projects from 2023 are included in this data... averaging 77.74% reduction in pEUI. The 2030 goal for 2020-2025 is 80 percent reduction in pEUI, so we're right on track! #NetZero #AIA2030Commitment #SustainableDesign #ClimateAction

In the midst of a very busy September, here’s a moment of zen featuring Cloud Hall at Green Gulch Farm at Muir Beach (part of the San Francisco Zen Center). Converted from a stable and barn into student housing in the early 1970s, Cloud Hall had undergone many ad hoc alterations over the years. Siegel & Strain designed a much-needed renovation that improved thermal comfort, universal access, life safety, energy efficiency, and acoustic privacy. A new two-story addition to Cloud Hall—Still Water Hall—provides conference space on the ground floor with student housing above, and a universal access entry bridge connects Still Water Hall to the dining hall and other common facilities. Site improvements were carefully considered to improve wayfinding and access, provide privacy for the Zen community living at the site, and fit sensitively into Green Gulch’s forested canyon. Client: San Francisco Zen Center Landscape: John Northmore Roberts & Associates Structural: Mar Structural Design (formerly Tipping Mar) Mechanical: Engineering 350 Civil: Sherwood Design Engineers Photography: David Wakely #SanFranciscoZenCenter #CloudHall #GreenGulchFarm #SustainableArchitecture #SiegelStrainArchitects #JohnNorthmoreRobertsandAssociates #MarStructuralDesign #Engineering350 #SherwoodDesignEngineers #DavidWakelyPhotography

September is Transit Month in the Bay Area, and we've been enjoying the great videos BART has been posting, including this cool look into the Transbay Tube (celebrating 50 years of?service!) One of Siegel & Strain Architects' employee benefits is a generous commuter subsidy for all of the public transit systems that serve our office in Emeryville. AC Transit, BART, Amtrak and the San Francisco Bay Ferry: we love them all! #BayArea #TransitMonth #sustainability #transportation #publictransit

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Join Susi Marzuola, Amanda Knowles AIA, and Seth Dunn at the?relaunch party for the AIA East Bay Committee on the Environment (COTE) tomorrow evening at the David Brower Center (https://lnkd.in/gQjrJimD)! Be part of a dynamic, participatory workshop where we’ll explore what makes the East Bay unique and how our design community can turn knowledge into action. Your voice matters—let’s shape the future of sustainable design together! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/dkUy4nSJ #AIAEB #SiegelStrainArchitects #DavidBrowerCenter