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A unique community model for housing has been erected along the San Francisco skyline. Set in the Mission Bay neighborhood, the Edwin M. Lee Apartments are the first of its kind in the city. Grateful residents can enjoy the...

In a space that used to be a gravel, 1 De Haro designed by architecture Perks&Will is the first cross-laminated timber (CLT) building in San Francisco and the first multistory, fully mass timber building in California...

Coffee lovers have a zillion options to grab a cup of coffee in San Francisco, but Equator Coffee’s newest location will trump all the others. Its new Round House Café has a nearly 360 degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge,...

SWA Group has reimagined San Francisco's Harvey Milk Plaza in an ambitious new project honoring the late LGBTQ+ hero. Chosen out of 17 design firms invited to submit proposals, SWA Group envisioned a standout design for The...

Yerba Buena Island, a ‘secret’ island of parks, open green spaces and beachfront, offers one of the most spectacular views across the San Francisco Bay...

Nespresso's parent company, Nestlé, has certainly come under fire for things like bottling water in California during historic droughts and sourcing water near Flint, Michigan in the past...

Construction has broken ground on an MVRDV-designed building at San Francisco’s Mission Rock, a multi-phase masterplan that will transform nearly 30 acres of asphalt into a sustainably minded, mixed-use neighborhood and...

San Francisco Bay could become the new home to extinction-threatened sea otters, according to a recent report published in PeerJ. Although the bay is located in the middle of a major urban area, it may still offer...

Your new neighbour could be Californian; Covid-19 and presumably Covid-19 lockdowns appear to be the final straw for people living in California's filthy crime ridden big cities.

David Baker Architects has completed 222 Taylor, an affordable housing complex in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Designed with more than 100 affordable housing units for low-income households and families and...

From The Hill San Francisco is banning reusable shopping bags to prevent outside germs from entering grocery stores as the coronavirus pandemic affects cities around the country, The new ordinance from the San Francisco Department...

Electriphi, a provider of charging management and fleet monitoring software for electric vehicles, has joined the scrum of startups looking to provide services to the growing number of electric vehicle fleets in the U.S....

Downtown San Francisco is putting pedestrians first by turning the 2-mile Market Street, a major hub for the city, into a completely car-free space. Inhabitat spoke with an urban planner of the esteemed Perkins and Will...

When architect Jonathan Feldman of Feldman Architecture began remodeling his home in San Francisco in the early 2010s, the growing green building movement in the city inspired him to turn his residence — dubbed ‘The Farm’...

Ever wonder which American cities are the most eco-friendly? WalletHub recently unveiled its list of 2019's Greenest Cities in the U.S., after comparing 100 of the country’s most populated cities across 28 underlying indicators...