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For the team behind the San Francisco Proper Hotel’s historic rehabilitation, the 1904 hotel’s most beautiful features also proved the most challenging.

The scope of the Westdrift Manhattan Beach renovation project included both demolition and construction at the continuously operating hotel.

Opened in 1925, Hotel Californian was one of Santa Barbara’s first Spanish Colonial Revival structures.

The Alcatraz Photography Studio in Berkeley, Calif., transformed a century-old box of a building used as a Halloween costume store into an artistic space.

The C3 office building in Culver City, Calif., offers shared “hackable” spaces that can be easily changed to suit tenants’ needs.

The design of Playa Jefferson Building E combines the industrial look of concrete on the lower level with a steel-and-wood “warehouse in the sky” above.

The Annenberg PetSpace is part animal shelter, part playground and part science center.

Taking a cue from computer chip design, NVIDIA’s triangular campus headquarters encourages collaboration among its 2,500 employees in 500,000 sq ft of space spread across two floors.

To create BioMarin’s Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility, the project team renovated an existing office and warehouse building into a specialized space. 

Ford Motor Co.’s plan to put a fully autonomous car on the road by 2021 inspired the creation of the Ford Innovation and Research Center in Palo Alto.