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		<title>SoMa Renovation + Addition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mixed-use project incorporating two adjoining unreinforced masonry buildings in San Francisco&#8217;s South of Market neighborhood.  Work includes a complete renovation of the existing buildings: structural upgrades, installation of new core elements, facade refurbishment / alteration, and installation of new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection services. In addition to the renovation, the scheme includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MinnaTower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MinnaTower could be a mix of uses: restaurant on the ground floor, offices or galleries on intermediate floors, and half or full floor penthouse condominiums above.  A compact core, with two elevators and scissor stairs containing both code-required exits, would yield approx. 3,000 SF of rentable floor area on each floor. Conceived as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Buildings, New Designs</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Old Buildings, New Designs&#8221; Book Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Old Buildings, New Designs &#124; Architectural Transformations" from Princeton Architectural Press is available now.  For book tour dates see the full article...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archengine.com/obnd-booktour/</link>
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		<title>Heritage News Cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 Kearny on the cover of Heritage News, published by San Francisco Architectural Heritage.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archengine.com/heritage-news-cover/</link>
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		<title>Seattle Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Bloszies will speak at the “OLD:NEW” Panel Discussion at Seattle Art Museum on April 21, 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archengine.com/seattletalk/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Skyscraper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is an off-the-grid skyscraper feasible?  Our design is a prototype for a structure that could be located anywhere on the planet with enough fuel, i.e. sun and wind, to meet the demands of that particular climate zone’s energy consumption.  Commercial buildings are the largest consumers of electric grid power, yet over 50% of the energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Kearny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An amalgam of three buildings, one new and two existing (from different eras), will form a new single office building with retail uses on lower floors.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archengine.com/1kearny/</link>
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		<title>Recycled Batteries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In rare instances, old structures may be able to be saved by new, sustainable interventions. The historic concrete bunkers (or &#8220;batteries&#8221;) along the Pacific Coast are an example.  Currently in the United States, wind farms are being constructed far from the point of use for the energy generated, but a small-scale approach, employing the batteries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archengine.com/batteries/</link>
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		<title>Transit Shelters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were chosen as one of three local firms to redesign San Francisco&#8217;s transit shelters. Large advertising corporations competed to win a contract to design, produce and maintain transit shelters that could also include advertising. We worked for ClearChannel / Adshel, the company that ultimately won the contract. Our design was runner-up. An ideal sustainable [...]]]></description>
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