Architecture & Design

Mint Plaza in San Francisco | Topos

Just three years ago, this stretch of Jessie Street in downtown San Francisco was a gritty back alley, populated by parked cars, pigeons, and the down-and-out. Today, the neighborhood has a new beacon: Mint Plaza, an L-shaped pedestrian plaza filling the footprint of the once-neglected alley.

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Architecture & Design

Listening to the Land | Topos

Unlike other firms directed by a single design guru, whose signature design sense comes through in everything he or she touches, SWA Group’s strength lies in the diversity of its designers. “There is no SWA Style per se,” says Nancy Fleming, a principal in the Sausalito office. “It is never form for form’s sake.”

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