Do you remember the scene in the movie Big when they create a toy that transforms from a building into a robot, and Tom Hanks proclaims...

In the spirit of the Baran Studio split Los Angeles / Bay Area personality:

We have been selected as a finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards. You can help us by voting for Zero Streets in the Unbuilt Transportation...

This is a guest post by Nick Sowers, Registered Architect™. Baran Studio Architecture is located in a creative light-industrial pocket in...

A couple months ago we were asked to be the feature of a Ford commercial. We have the final product here! Check it out. #Architecture...

These ideas started a few months ago when I read Paul Goldberger’s biography of Frank Gehry. I just came across a write up by Witold...

After a recent business / holiday to the place where I grew up, Huntington Beach, I was struck yet again by how much it had changed in...

When I’m told “this modernism thing isn’t going to last” I feel like I just emerged from a time machine in 1905. Modernism was not a...

We have been working for some time on the MacArthur Annex project which is now under construction. It is a mixed-use container project...

Progress on the new office project on Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake. The developer has recently sold the property to PETA and they will be...

Another of our recently built homes. Since we seem to have a series going on Harmon Street in Berkeley, we’ve come up with ‘Shifted...

We’ve recently completed several new dwellings, and I’d like to introduce them, starting with Burnett in Berkeley:...

We were recently mentioned in this San Francisco Business Times article about Madison Park Financial and John Protopapus:...

Last week, we took the fourth series of photos to show the project’s progress. As you can see, the structures are starting to show their...

Last night we had the honor of receiving another Citation for Architecture in the AIA East Bay Chapter’s 2015 Design Awards for our W.16...

The following is an excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine with additional images to illustrate the projects being...

The Piedmont Ave. project provides a hybrid development consisting 3 of small commercial/apartment buildings facing the street and 4...

A few images I snapped over the last few weeks, just to give an idea of what’s been going on lately: Current project ideas, studio pin-up:

Architectural ‘morality’ in the United States comes in the form of the ordinary. There is a belief (often present in other aspects of our...

The Piedmont Ave. project provides a hybrid development consisting 3 of small commercial/apartment buildings facing the street and 4...