San Diego’s beloved architecture competition — Orchids and Onions — is back with awards for the best new buildings and projects, as well as demerits for designs that missed the mark. The 47-year-old ...

The Inamori Pavilion in Balboa Park by RNT Architects. Between the two of them, Jack Carpenter and Kotaro Nakamura have close to 100 years of experience as San Diego architects. Through their own work ...

One Sansome is a soaring 42-story tower in the heart of San Francisco’s Central Business District. It includes 650,000 square feet of leasable Class A office space, a historic 8,000-square-foot ...

Bus benches with dividers on Second Avenue. (Photo by Calista Stocker/Times of San Diego) In 2017, the Metropolitan Transit System spent $1.4 million upgrading bus stop benches throughout the county.

Covering more than a century of buildings, winners of the San Diego 2025 Design Awards by the American Institute of Architects run from Baroque to mid-century modern, sixties weird, and fresh ...

Anand Sheth’s presentation at the San Francisco Art Fair shows how designers are thinking about adaptability and reuse.

SAN DIEGO — From armrests in the middle of benches to large rocks added underneath bridges and along sidewalks, some homeless advocates in San Diego call these designs "hostile architecture" or ...

San Francisco rolled out the proverbial red carpet (with just a hint of fog) last week from June 7 through 10 as host city of the 2023 edition of the American Institute of Architects’ largest annual ...

American Institute of Architects San Francisco chapter has opened the Center for Architecture + Design on the ground floor of the historic Hallidie Building. (Richard Barnes Photography) Upon entering ...