Farmers First reimagines our food system in a way that centers the needs of farmers and the environment, converting former poultry production facilities into greenhouses that grow food efficiently, year-round, and at a low cost.

The Southeast Asian Development Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to lifting children, youth and families from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam out of poverty. We created an open, inviting entry space for the SEADC’s Tenderloin Youth Center, which was once a visually opaque storefront in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.

Challenged with taking a five story spec home and infusing a feel of elegance and the charm of a classic San Francisco Victorian, ENVELOPE worked closely with the talented interior design team at the Office of Charles de Lisle to create a family home and sanctuary with the dual purpose of hosting events at a variety of scales.

The Hunters Point Shoreline is a new public open space born out of a far-reaching public, interim use, and community engagement strategy for the former Hunters Point Power Plant site.

For the launch of Focals, a new line of smart glasses, North asked for a scalable system that could translate a complex customer journey into a gracious, intuitive experience. Adaptability was key.

The Pilara Foundation chose to create a home for its critically acclaimed photography collection in an unlikely location: a historic timber-framed warehouse perched over the San Francisco Bay.

Set along Octavia Boulevard, lots M+N are among the most challenging of the 22 development parcels created when the Central Freeway was removed. The 120-foot-wide parcels are just 18 feet deep, defying typical housing configurations.

The spatial aspect of the headquarters for Durie Tangri intellectual property law firm prioritizes openness and transparency, providing visual access while allowing for aural privacy where required for client confidentiality. Collaborative spaces figure highly throughout the office, supporting the firm’s team-based crafting of new intellectual property laws in the territories of tech, web and biotechnology law. These flex spaces promote casual group engagement through diverse postures, from clustered seating focused on large white board walls, to intimate couch-rooms, to more traditional library-type work tables.

The Crane Court Residence solves the puzzle of our client's desire for an inward-facing private courtyard house situated on a significantly sloping site with compelling outward facing views. ENVELOPE created a courtyard house that is stepped to conform to the sloping site, with vertical surfaces opened to engage the interior living spaces with the experience of surrounding landscape. The result is a house that steps gracefully down the hillside with an elevated rooftop terrace, and living spaces featuring views of a distant valley, a prominent ridgeline, and an intimate undercanopy of Live Oaks.