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Every town needs a place where people run into each other on purpose. A spot with a bakery, a bench, a fire pit, and enough open air that a Tuesday afternoon can turn into a conversation. Mill Valley found that place again in 2018, when Michael Heacock Architects completed the transformation of the historic Mill Valley Lumber Yard, and gave the town back a piece of its own history as a place to gather. A Working Lumberyard Since 1892 The property at 129 Miller Avenue has a hi

When a company takes over an entire historic building in San Francisco's Jackson Square neighborhood and turns it into a destination workplace, the finished space deserves documentation that matches the ambition of the project. Emily Hagopian Photography was engaged to capture the completed Ripple Global Headquarters at 600 Battery Street. At the time, it was one of the largest single tenant workplace transformations to land in San Francisco in recent years. Project Overview

In April 2022, I photographed a 197,356 square foot workplace in San Francisco designed by Vocon. The tenant is a global professional services firm large enough that its brand guidelines call for anonymity in outside marketing, and Vocon's own published case study for the project follows that same practice, referring to the client only as a confidential global professional services firm. This post does the same. A Workplace Built Around Community Vocon's design brief asked a

Inside the shoot at NIAC's net zero, feng shui designed headquarters in Santa Cruz by EHDD, powered by rooftop solar and battery storage.

The Lindley Center for STEM Education is a 105,000 square foot interdisciplinary STEM building at Santa Rosa Junior College, designed by SmithGroup and opened in 2024. In May 2026 the project received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 SCUP and AIA CAE Excellence in Architecture Awards for a New Building. I photographed the completed building for SmithGroup over two days in October 2024, and those images now anchor both the firm's project page and the national award announcemen

Enchanted Hills Camp is a 311 acre retreat in Napa for blind and visually impaired campers, rebuilt after a 2017 wildfire destroyed much of the original site. The rebuild was led by Perkins and Will together with landscape architect RHAA, and went on to receive a Special Commendation in the 2026 AIASF Design Awards. The project was also featured by Fast Company. Photographing a site built specifically around touch, sound, and accessibility called for an approach that went wel