Category Archives: Architect-Designed

872 Arlington, Berkeley

Posted on March 27, 2023 by edificionado

This charming First Bay Region residence is an early and fairly understated design by Julia Morgan. The exterior is an interesting combination of Prairie and Shingle styles with what looks like a bit of Tudor half timbering for good measure. … Continue reading →

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1815 Manzanita, Oakland

Posted on March 20, 2023 by edificionado

Today we feature a truly impressive Third Bay Region residence by one of our favorite local design-builders, Martin Davis. Davis’ homes tend to be highly vertical with particularly expressive massing and interesting geometries, and this example does not disappoint. It … Continue reading →

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171 San Marcos, San Francisco

Posted on March 14, 2023 by edificionado

Our featured home today is across the bridge in San Francisco but it was designed by two UC Berkeley alumni so we don’t feel like we have strayed too far from our stated purpose. Irving and Gertrude Morrow are perhaps … Continue reading →

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4536 Hillsborough, Castro Valley

Posted on March 6, 2023 by edificionado

This intriguing Castro Valley mid-century was designed by local San Francisco architect and kung fu grandmaster Henry Luck. Luck grew up in both China and California and then went on to study architecture at Berkeley. He is probably best known … Continue reading →

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1655 Arrowhead, Oakland

Posted on February 28, 2023 by edificionado

Today we feature a great Oakland Hills A-frame/dome hybrid attributed to Robert Blunk of Blunk Associates. One of the downsides of the standard A-frame form is that there is generally only room for windows on the ends of the structure. … Continue reading →

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3101 Gibbons, Alameda

Posted on February 22, 2023 by edificionado

After the immense success of the Homes of Tomorrow exhibition at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, General Electric decided to replicate the program across the country by cooperating with local utilities and architects to create GE Model Homes that … Continue reading →

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8 Sunnyside, Orinda

Posted on February 14, 2023 by edificionado

Our featured home today is an extremely late design by perennial Bay Region favorite Beverley David Thorne. Thorne would move away from his trademark steel structures as the years passed and tastes changed. Here he uses large glulam beams to … Continue reading →

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3256 Garfield, Alameda

Posted on February 6, 2023 by edificionado

Today we feature another beautifully preserved Victorian. This one is the long-time home of Alameda Museum curator George Gunn and it shows. It is a lovely raised basement Queen Anne cottage designed by respected local architect Charles Shaner in 1894 … Continue reading →

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6201 Westwood, Oakland

Posted on January 30, 2023 by edificionado

This thoughtfully composed Oakland Hills new modern residence is the work of local architect Robert Swatt of Swatt Miers Architects. Swatt has been designing residences in the East Bay for over a quarter of a century and the purity of … Continue reading →

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6948 Norfolk, Berkeley

Posted on November 1, 2022 by edificionado

Our featured home today is a showy new modern residence designed by Karman Ng formerly of Cantilever Design. Ng designed the home for himself and used it as a launch pad for his career as an independent practitioner. As such … Continue reading →

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