Please join us, along with hundreds of school children, their families and our friends from the design and building community, on Saturday, October 20th, 2012 as we take to Ocean Beach for the 29th Annual Leap Sandcastle Contest!

Leap...arts in education was established in response to severe budget cuts in arts programs in California schools. The organization serves over 8,000 youth (primarily elementary school age) in over 40 schools in the Bay Area providing educational programs focused on music, dance, story telling, visual arts and architecture.  Leap's annual Sandcastle Contest has for nearly thirty years raised funds to support these efforts.

This year are delighted to team up again with Mr. Gelfand’s fifth grade class at George Peabody Elementary School, Yu-Strandberg Engineers, Geoffrey DeSousa Interior Design along with our new construction partner, Forde Mazzola Associates. 

We hope you'll support our fundraising efforts and educational arts programs in the public schools by becoming a Team Sponsor for the Leap Sandcastle Contest.  Note: please be sure to designate Butler Armsden in the Team Name field and help us win Top Fundraiser again this year!  Last fall our team took the honor as top fundraiser bringing in $40,000 toward the event’s total of $200,000.

 

Every summer Butler Armsden Architects hosts middle school students from the SummerBridge program at University High School for Career Day.  This year we were delighted to have 10 students visit our office.

This students began the day with an introduction and tour of the office,  had one-on-one breakout sessions with staff architects, and took in a lecture and slideshow lead by Lewis Butler before enjoying a pizza lunch.  In the afternoon Lewis lead them on walking tour of Pacific Heights to take in and learn about various architectural styles.  They capped off the day with a visit to the job site of one of our projects currently under construction, a William Wurster house overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

For over 30 years, SummerBridge has provided tuition-free academic enrichment and advocacy to motivated but underserved middle school students, making the best educational opportunities available to students with limited resources.  Please visit the University High School's website to read more about this terrific program.

The guest bath in a Pacific Heights carriage house was chosen as the Bath of the Month for the June issue of House Beautiful.  Careful space planning and creative use of striped tiling allows the bath to feel larger than its petite 37 square footage suggests.

Designed in collaboration with Angela Free Interior Design.

View more of the carriage house here.

LEAP is a San Francisco-based non-profit whose mission is to provide arts, music, design and theater programs in our public schools filling voids left by state budget cuts. Butler Armsen Architects has participated in LEAP's primary fundraiser event the annual Sandcastle Contest at Ocean Beach for the past five years. This year BAA and Dijea Poage Construction welcomed two new members to our team, Geoff De Sousa and Yu-Strandberg Engineers.  Together we raised over $40,000 for LEAP...Imagination in Learning breaking all of our previous records and once again taking home the honor of Top Fundraiser.

Houzz profiles Lewis Butler and his modern cabin design for his family's farm near Winters, California.

Read the entire post here!

The San Francisco Chapter of the AIA announced at its annual awards ceremony April 14th that Butler Armsden Architects had won a Citation Award for Tiburon Bay House in the Energy and Sustainability category.  We are delighted to share this honor with our clients and the entire project team.

To learn more about this project please click through here.

This collaborative effort amongst homeowner, architect, contractor, consultants and vendors is slated to result in one of the first LEED-H Platinum designations for Northern California.

See more here!

It was another great day at Ocean Beach this year as hundreds of architects, contractors, engineers and students joined forces to build sandcastles in the name of arts education in the public schools.  This year’s theme was Sand Francisco and BAA teamed up with Dijeau Poage Construction, GFDS Engineers and Mr. Gelfand's 5th Grade class at George Peabody Elementary School to create a massive sandcastle complete with curvy Lombard Street. 

Reba Jones, Senior Associate at Butler Armsden Architects, was one of 25 Bay Area designers chosen to participate in a designer showcase on the 52nd floor of San Francisco's newest luxury high-rise building at 301 Mission Street.  Her room for Millennium Tower's Icons of Design showcase reinterprets the library room making it fit for the 21st century.

See more if this project here.