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Design Feature

View of informal conference/pinup area.

Creative company near San Francisco
gets ‘hybrid’ design makeover
Terry.Terry Architecture turns an old brick building in a red-light district
into a fun workplace. Photo credit: Bruce Damonte

Conference area and detail of steel bay window.
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THE PROJECT houses a growing graphiccum-product design office within an existing
brick building located in the Jackson square
historic district (outside San Francisco). The
design requires the removal of the existing
interior structure while leaving the existing
perimeter brick structure and the original
part of the front facade intact. The new
design incorporates the addition of a second
story structure above the original floor that
opens out to a roof deck injecting elements
of the outdoors into the core of the office and
inserting a steel ribbon surround at the front
facade to create a large bay window and entry
shroud, forming a looking glass with the work
place and the eventful street life.
The original building was destroyed in
the 1906 earthquake and fire. Set in the heart
of the city’s red-light district, a new brick
structure was quickly erected to house a new
bar and saloon. More recently, the building