Robot 5
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...
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Apr 10, 20161 min read
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We’re Not Berkeley Enough
In the spirit of the Baran Studio split Los Angeles / Bay Area personality:
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Apr 1, 20161 min read
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Baran Studio Architecture selected as Architizer A+ Awards finalist
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...
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Mar 19, 20161 min read
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Making with Machines
This is a guest post by Nick Sowers, Registered Architect™. Baran Studio Architecture is located in a creative light-industrial pocket in...
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Feb 26, 20162 min read
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Baran Studio in a Ford Commercial
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...
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Feb 12, 20161 min read
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On Architectural Psychology, Love, and Why YouTube might be Ruining the City
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...
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Feb 7, 20164 min read
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HB: Looking Beyond Image
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...
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Jan 10, 20162 min read
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Don’t be afraid of Modernism. It’s dead.
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...
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Dec 31, 20154 min read
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MacArthur Annex: Our Mixed-Use Container Community in the News
We have been working for some time on the MacArthur Annex project which is now under construction. It is a mixed-use container project...
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Nov 11, 20151 min read
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Construction Progress: Silverlake Offices
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...
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Nov 10, 20151 min read
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New Completed Projects: Shifted House
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...
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Nov 7, 20151 min read
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New Completed Projects: Burnett
We’ve recently completed several new dwellings, and I’d like to introduce them, starting with Burnett in Berkeley:...
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Nov 4, 20151 min read
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Baran Studio Architecture in the SF Business Times
We were recently mentioned in this San Francisco Business Times article about Madison Park Financial and John Protopapus:...
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Oct 28, 20151 min read
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Piedmont Project Update
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...
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Oct 7, 20151 min read
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Baran Studio Wins Citation for Architecture
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...
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Oct 2, 20151 min read
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Design for the Times, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine
The following is an excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine with additional images to illustrate the projects being...
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Sep 25, 20152 min read
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Piedmont Project Update
The Piedmont Ave. project provides a hybrid development consisting 3 of small commercial/apartment buildings facing the street and 4...
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Jul 29, 20151 min read
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Studio Walls and Other Surfaces
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:
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Jul 6, 20151 min read
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Out of Context?
Architectural ‘morality’ in the United States comes in the form of the ordinary. There is a belief (often present in other aspects of our...
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Jun 14, 20153 min read
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Piedmont Project Update
The Piedmont Ave. project provides a hybrid development consisting 3 of small commercial/apartment buildings facing the street and 4...
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May 29, 20151 min read
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