CITYSPACES^® 500 Kirkham

Federal Opportunity Zone

500 Kirkham Street
Oakland, CA 94607

Possibilities to add convenience, intensity, and cheer in cities ... are limitless.

- Jane Jacobs

CITYSPACES^® MicroPAD^®: Essential Housing

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.

- Dieter Rams

CITYSPACES^® 1321:
The Panoramic

1321 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

"The genius of American urbanism is that it can accommodate variety without endangering its wholeness ... And in San Francisco, it's obvious that an incredible cultural permutation is being elaborated."

- Rem Koolhaas

CITYSPACES^® 2539:
The Nexus

2539 Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

Berkeley needs a visual representation of its own modernity; Telegraph Avenue needs a bold expression of optimism.

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CITYSPACES^® 2711:
Shattuck Studios

2711 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

- Rem Koolhaas

CITYSPACES^® 333:
City Gardens

333 12th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

- Millard Sheets

CITYSPACES^® 345:
Folsom Flats

345 12th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

- Dieter Rams

Fine Arts

2110 Haste Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

1. "Good design is innovative."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

The Berkeleyan

1910 Oxford Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

2. "Good design makes a product useful."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

GAIA

2116 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

3. "Good design is aesthetic.”

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

Bachenheimer

2119 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704

4. "Good design makes a product understandable.”

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

Henry Court

1509 Henry Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

5. "Good design is unobtrusive.”

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

Acton Courtyard

1370 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704

6. "Good design is honest."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

ARTech

2002 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

7. "Good design is long-lasting."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

CITYSPACES^® 38:
Harriet

38 Harriet Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

8. "Good design is thorough down to the last detail.”

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

Touriel

2004 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704

9. "Good design is environmentally friendly."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

Shattuck Lofts

1849 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709

10. "Good design is as little design as possible."

- Dieter Rams
10 Principles of Good Design

2130 Center

2130 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

“More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they're allowed to.”

- Stewart Brand

UC Storage

2721 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705

“That’s the whole meaning of life…isn’t it? Trying to find a place to put your stuff…”

- George Carlin