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.

Sandcastle 2011

AD CoverWe couldn't have said it better ourselves...as Architectural Digest writes in the November 2011 issue: "Exquisite works of art and design achieve striking equilibrium in a Bay Area residence by interior decorator Steven Volpe and architect Lewis Butler."  BAA managed the complete renovation of the former spec house on a one acre lot for a tech mogul and his family.  No expense was spared to turn it into a gracious and livable space that houses priceless works of art, children and golden retrievers with equal ease.

Read the article here.   See more of the project here.

The November issue of Dwell contained a special supplement highlighted their favorite Bay Area designers and our very own Reba Jones, Senior Associate, was included among them.

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