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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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