Macy Architecture

Profile of Macy Architecture

Business Name

Macy Architecture

Location

United States

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.macyarchitecture.com

Mark Macy

Principal(s)

Mark Macy (1962)

Philosophy

Macy Architecture is an architecture and interiors firm based in San Francisco. Founded in 1994, the practice has realized projects across California, the United States and Europe. Cultivating a diverse client base has resulted in extensive experience with educational, institutional, commercial, retail, arts-related, and custom-residential projects. The firm's work has been recognized by numerous design awards and publications.

Our extensive knowledge of both standard and alternative construction techniques allows us to design solutions that are elegant, cost effective, and environmentally sensitive. We look for unique, appropriate, and poetic responses to the constraints and opportunities of each project. In all our work, extreme care is taken to conceptualize comprehensively from the general to the particular so that the end effect conveyed is one of thorough and thoughtful consideration.

Background

• Founded: 1994
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 5

Key projects

• Experimental Prefabricated Metal Home, El Granada, California, USA, 2008
• Pueblo Invierno Sustainable Housing Development, Sacramento, California, USA, 2007-present
• California College of the Arts - Various Educational Buildings, San Francisco, California, USA, 1998-2007
• Chronicle Books Publishers - Various Retail, Exhibition & Commercial Projects, Nationwide, USA, 1999-2007
• Java Time Coffee Houses Retail Identity, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2006-2007
• Point Loma Residence, San Diego, California, USA, 2006
• Headquarters for Old Navy (GAP Inc.), San Francisco, California, USA, 2006
• Jack Falstaff Restaurant, San Francisco, California, USA, 2004
• Scharffen-Berger Chocolate Factory, Berkeley, California, USA, 2001
• Offices for Cahan Associates, San Francisco, California, USA, 2000

Key publications

• Architecture Plus vol. 52, 2006; "Sculpture Garden on Roof"; "Orchestrated Plasticity"; (SFMOMA Sculpture Garden, Vasari SF Retail Store)
• Interior World vol. 52, 2006; "Official Space"; (Angry Monkey, KBP West, Cahan & Associates Offices)
• Radical Office Design, 2006; Abbeville Press; (KBP West Offices)
• California Home + Design, October, 2006; "Ten to Watch"; (SFMOMA Sculpture Garden, Children's Day School, Old Navy, CCA Graduate Center)
• And: Guide San Francisco Architecture & Design, 2005; teNeues Publishers; (Cahan & Associates Offices, CCA Graduate Center, CCA Jewett Studios)
• amc Le Moniteur Architecture, December 2005; "Interieurs 2006"; (KBP West Offices)
• Architectural Record, August 2004; "Facing the Future", Campus Planning Feature; (CCA Graduate Center)
• The Other Office, Creative Workplace Design, 2004; Frame/Birkhauser Publishers; (KBP Offices)
• Interior Design, May, 2004; "Brand Identity"; (Cahan & Associates Offices)
• San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, January 5, 2003; "Courtyard Glamour"; (Joss Residence)

Key awards

• 2005 AIA East Bay Design Awards; Merit Award for Design; American Institute of Architects, East Bay Chapter; (Praxis Building)
• 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA 2005); Silver Medal, Environments Category; Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week Magazine; (California College of the Arts - Graduate Center)
• 2004 AIA California Council Design Awards; Merit Award for Design; American Institute of Architects, California Council; (California College of the Arts - Graduate Center)
• 2004 AIA San Francisco Design Awards; Excellence in Design Award; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; (California College of the Arts - Graduate Center)
• 2003 AIASF "Best of the Bay" Architecture Awards; Excellence in Design Award; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; (Offices for Cahan & Associates)
• 2002 AIASF "Best of the Bay and Beyond" Architecture Awards; Honor Award, Retail Category; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter / S.F. Business Times; (Poppybox Gardens - Flagship Store)
• 2001 Preservation Award; Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association; (Scharffenberger Chocolate Factory)
• 2000/01 AIASF "Best of the Bay" Interior Architecture Awards; Award of Merit, Residential Category; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; (Twin Flats)
• 2000/01 AIASF "Best of the Bay" Interior Architecture Awards; Award of Merit, Institutional Category; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; (California College of the Arts - Jewett Studios)
• 1998 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA 1998); Silver Medal, Corporate & Public Interiors Category; Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week Magazine; (Offices for Moto Development Group)