KANSAS CITY | Master List MESSENGER COFFEE CO. KANSAS CITY Studio BBA was hired as the design architect for this Kansas City coffee company’s first brick and mortar location, which will house a café, roastery, offices and storage, as well as their sister company, Ibis Bakery. The 3-story building is part of an urban revitalization taking place in the nearby Crossroads District, soon be more closely linked to already-vibrant parts of town via the new KC Downtown Streetcar . Customers get a lively, full view of café service and bakery production at street level, entering into a large open community space that puts process on display. A new 3-story, skylit stair inspires upward exploration to Messenger’s roastery and additional café space, and to the public access roof deck. The third floor functions as space for offices, quality control and an incubator for the coffee and bread creation process. The client is a young, design-minded family who want the materials to set a spunky vibe, with clever interjections throughout. The project will be implemented from Design Development through Construction Administration by the client’s local architect. Client Messenger Coffee Co. BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Sarah Fucinaro Size 19,000 SF Contractor 3 Square Contracting Collaborators Architect of Record: DRAW Architecture + Urban Design Photography Ryan James Carr Back to Projects page Back to top

SAN FRANCISCO | Master List DROPBOX HQ SAN FRANCISCO Our design for this young company’s new 70,000 sq. ft. China Basin headquarters provides flexibility for their fast-growing business, while introducing innovative approaches to urban workplace density. If cubicles are the suburbs then our approach to Dropbox HQ is downtown, with their core product as the design inspiration. The company’s new workspace a simple, well-executed container that maximizes functionality and allows for customization without compromising honest aesthetics. Our design reiterates our belief that all spaces – particularly the all-too-often neglected office – deserve real materials and attentive, appropriately-scaled interventions. The primary challenge of this design was to continue the charged and collaborative newsroom feel of the company’s former open office space, while planning for projected growth that could more than quadruple staff. Wrapping the existing building core, a nearly 1,600 ft. continuous circulation loop provides daylight and views to the entire office. The open space plan is organized to be approachable but intensively active and vibrant. Team groupings of open workstations and centralized social spaces line the glazed perimeter, interspersed with shared work rooms, interview and meeting spaces, and informal lounges. The scale and placement of the work groups provides team unity and isolated acoustics, while still maintaining views to neighboring groups to achieve the company’s desire that everyone maintain a connection to overall density. Specific auxiliary spaces include: phone, break, game, music, server, gym, kitchen, and dining. Client Dropbox BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Seth Boor Sarah Fucinaro Size 70,000 SF Contractor Skyline Construction Collaborators Interiors: Geremia Design Photography Bruce Damonte Studio BBA Back to Projects page Back to top

SAN FRANCISCO | Master List LORD STANLEY SAN FRANCISCO This new restaurant will be a welcoming, informal, cozy, comfortable space in which to share meals. Proprietors and chefs (and charming married couple) Carrie Puffer Blease and Rupert Blease aim to ensure that guests leave the restaurant with a feeling of well-being, satisfaction and nourishment from their surroundings as well as their meal. Studio BBA approached the design in keeping with this aim, and in synchronicity with the chefs’ approach to food—naturally elegant, carefully thought out, amazing ingredients and a lack of complication. We peeled away unnecessary layers in the two-story space to expose its simple raw beauty, and its tall north and east facing windows. A few minimal but interesting, honest and homey insertions were added to set the tone for the restaurant: a new front door with “Welcome” stenciled into the sidewalk, a poured concrete floor, a white custom-textured concrete bar, a modern steel railing, a sculptural lighting installation and custom wood tables. The owners commission their personal friend, textile artist Ashley Helvey , to create a wall-mounted felt piece with the texture of fur. Client Lord Stanley BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Seth Boor Sarah Fucinaro Size 1,050 SF Contractor Upcycle Builders Collaborators Textile Installation: Ashley Helvey Photography Nick Ruiz Back to Projects page Back to top

VANCOUVER | Master List MOJA COFFEE VANCOUVER Moja Coffee’s new café is a neighborhood living room where the community and baristas can share espresso and daily conversation together without pretense. Owners Doug Finley and Andrew Wentzel were inspired to create a local place that offers an egalitarian, communal atmosphere for enjoying coffee, as they had experienced in their travels through Italy and Africa. Not only a café, Moja will serve as a roasting and packaging facility—a 12 kilo Probat roaster lies at the heart of their operation, visible within the café as well as from the outdoor patio. Located in an historic, corner building amidst the thriving arts corridor of Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, the space is characterized by industrial simplicity. The layout of the café balances the need for efficiency and organization on the production side, with the desire to foster seamless interaction between patrons and staff. A steel shelving armature provides area for retail display, while a band of wood cabinetry, accessed by rolling ladder, fulfills the pragmatic need for storage. The new architectural elements crafted from locally sourced woods and original brick wall feel warm and familiar, grounding the light-filled, clean and crisp character of the overall space. Client Moja Coffee BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Stephanie Griffith Size 1,300 SF Contractor Collaborators Architect of Record: Allan Diamond Architect Photography Studio BBA Back to Projects page Back to top

OAKLAND | Master List DREAMING BIG WITH GROUND OAKLAND We often have clients find us through the myriad of hospitality projects that we have done over the years . . . where people connect the dots of their favorite Bay Area places (and their ability to foster deeper human connections) back to us. It is endearing and humbling and sometimes surprising, as is the case with these speculative projects for Binta Ayofemi and her non-profit, Ground. Over the course of two years, we worked with this artist to create the master plan, the collages and the architectural backbone for her ambitious artistic vision. You can see the results of one such project at Commons in Oakland. The others live on as dreams for a fairer future in which the flow of global capital emerges from the ground where ideas are born. Client Binta Ayofemi, Ground BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Anand Sheth Vishnu Balunsat Size Varies Contractor Unbuilt Collaborators Binta Ayofemi Photography None Back to Projects page Back to top

DIVISADERO, SAN FRANCISCO | Master List SIGHTGLASS DIVISADERO DIVISADERO, SAN FRANCISCO Each Sightglass we’ve designed over the years has had its own inherent character and opportunities, on top of which we layer the radiant, warm, tactile brick-and-mortar brand we developed for them. And this 100+ year old Edwardian was no exception. A chic storefront now welcomes coffee-lovers—the result of a lengthy change-of-use permit process and structural upgrade. Reminiscent of a 1950s eatery, we lovingly restored the divided-light clerestory windows, commissioned steel doors with related glazing details, and added a walk-up service window. Inside the café everything is new, and highly customized, as is the case with all our Sightglass cafés. Tailormade chandeliers and fixtures, fittings, joinery, furniture and barista equipment contribute to a fine tuned, attentively detailed environment. Material and finish choices blend inspiration from various eras to create a sophisticated aesthetic—the ‘old world’ hand-chopped mosaic tile floor, mid-century tapered wood detailing, neoclassical plaster and grey Fume limestone, and turn-of the century utilitarian metal components. The cypress used throughout the interior is single-source; literally from one tree. Continuing our banquette concept from Sightglass 20th , this one was designed with bays and channel tufted leather backs—and with the comfort for various size groups and wheelchair accessibility in mind. A full-height merchandise shelf with pastry case and iced bottled beverage display distinguish the coffee bar. For the bathroom wall tile we designed a ‘wallpaper & wainscot’ pattern, and replicated this decorative motif in custom accessories and mechanisms. Modern systems such as radiant floor heating, LED lighting and a hidden ADA lift are seamlessly integrated. Client Sightglass Coffee BBA Team Seth Boor Bonnie Bridges Anand Sheth Size 1,750 SF Contractor SmithBuilt Collaborators Structural: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger MEP: MHC Engineers Photography Bruce Damonte Back to Projects page Back to top

SAN FRANCISCO | Master List STONEMILL MATCHA SAN FRANCISCO Stonemill Matcha engaged Studio BBA to design their first tea café location in the U.S. market—for our focus on creating architecture that inspires authentic customer experiences, as well as our expertise in destination café design. Like the Japanese tea ceremony itself, our design centered on the spirit of transformation and translation, and imparting a mindful experience. The resulting aesthetic is a deep and purposeful melding of two cultures and of function and beauty—with finishes and a composition grounded in Japanese traditional design and ritual, in a space infused with local flavor. In particular, Stonemill Matcha’s private tea room blossomed into an exceptionally special place for San Francisco—exuding materiality, tradition, serenity and calm. Soft lighting cascades over the surfaces, and a washi art installation by Eriko Horiki graces the back wall. Before we began the project it was critical to the Stonemill owners that we experience the art of the ancient tea ceremony at its source; to truly understand the ritual and its embodiment. We were invited to Japan and given the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the culture: attending modern, historic and combination ceremonies, staying at a historic Ryokan, meditating in a Kyoto temple, and delighting in the local arts, stores and restaurants. Through our schematic design process we distilled these influences into a totem of sorts, representing to us the idea of these two cultures coming together—a matchstick. The matchstick was chosen for its essential component properties of wood, extruded square, orthogonal strength and scalability, and was used in conceptual modeling for the café’s spatial elements. Client Stonemill Matcha BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Megan McGuinn Size 2,580 SF Contractor ACI General Contractors Collaborators Styling: Nicole Taramibuchi Photography Mariko Reed Back to Projects page Back to top

OAKLAND | Master List COMMONS OAKLAND OAKLAND COMMONS Oakland is a vision of renowned artist, Binta Ayofemi. As someone who sees her business ventures as an extension of her art and performance, Binta called upon BBA to reimagine a Broadway building into a new event space that operates like a civic park with an ancillary café. The finished project will speak to the power of a singular idea with strong authorship and opportunities for elevated craft. The building, once a mid-century bank and then a musical instrument store, seemed to be hiding in plain sight the first few times Binta walked past it. It wasn’t until she peeked through the graffiti-covered windows that she saw the true potential the site held. At that point, Binta tapped Studio BBA to fuse her love of performance art and the firm’s architectural designs. The firm’s ability to create authentic gathering places through the insertion of architectural forms, development of holistic systems, and the infusion of creative magic, was a natural fit for the project ahead. Oakland Commons is designed as an intimate hub that can foster endless opportunities. As soon as guests walk through the fourteen-foot-high, mid-century bronze Nanawall sliding glass door system, one of the tallest commercial applications in the Bay Area, they are met with the “proscenium,” one of the main inspirations and central focus for COMMONS and a key aspect of Binta’s vision. Inspired by a recent visit to Copenhagen and built of intricate wood details by Roman Hunt, the proscenium’s deodar cedar is planed and milled to accentuate all three grain surfaces – end grain, face grain and edge grain – and provides a canopy for the feature café/bar below. With symmetry in mind, the café/bar and restrooms consist of intricate two-toned tiled walls. An aqua shade, the design detail is reminiscent of patinaed copper, a classic Art Deco material that appears throughout Uptown Oakland and a strategic tie to the city at large. Stepping into COMMONS’ restroom is a stand-alone design moment, creating an outer-space-like moment that transports guests into what is intended to be a pause in their venue experience. Nearby, a common washroom sink is uniquely designed with custom concrete and stainless steel and a tapering basin, offering ADA compliance on one end, and shop-sink functionality at the other. Reinforcing the “civic” inspiration of use and space, Studio BBA incorporated custom mirrors into the tile pattern and placed vanity lights around the mirrors for a juxtaposing greenroom. To ensure efficiency within the back-of-house spaces, Studio BBA successfully tucked away areas like cafe prep and storage, as well as a shower and greenroom for performers and staff. The basement boasts an event overflow area, sound booths for recording music, and various facilities and hookups for future uses. Upstairs, COMMONS ’ renovated mezzanine includes a rentable conference room and open office for Binta’s staff and tenants. Client Binta Ayofemi BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Anand Sheth Vishnu Balunsat Size 10,000 SF Contractor CCI Roman Hunt Restoration Collaborators Binta Ayofemi Photography Studio BBA Back to Projects page Back to top

MILL VALLEY | Master List MAMAHUHU MILL VALLEY MILL VALLEY Mill Valley is the second location we’ve created with the Mamahuhu team. In addition to designing each individual location, we have been working with the talented Mamahuhu team on their spatial brand experience: the storefront vibe, customer and staff feel and flow, front and back of house standards (POS, water and bussing stations, pick up racks) and color and material design standards (brand colors, brand tile, booths, and other repeatable standards). Clement was the first location and carried with it a bit of Mister Jiu’s fine dining vibe (as Brandon Jew is a partner). Upon reflection, the MMHH team recognized that it did not align with their target clientele—a family friendly high-quality fast casual dining experience. Mill Valley captures the team and client feedback received from the original location. In this project, we developed a design that would trend more family friendly while maintaining a sophisticated playfulness. The long narrow space is lined with booths and tables crafted around the design standards we worked together to define(wood bar, maple plywood booths, and playful wall sconces). Working to highlight some of the space’s original charm, Ron champ-inspired windows run through the dining area with on-brand accent colors diffuse warm playful light into the space. Client Mamahuhu BBA Team Bonnie Bridges Megan McGuinn Vishnu Balunsat Size 1,270 SF Contractor Cookline Collaborators MEP Engineering: Acies Art: Casey Gray Brand Styling: Whisk Photography Kristen Loken Back to Projects page Back to top

SAN FRANCISCO | Master List THE MILL PARKLET SAN FRANCISCO Solidity, simplicity and safety were the drivers of our design for this outdoor public space at The Mill , our third contribution to San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks Initiative . The parklet creates a protected place of pause along the dense, busy corridor of automobile traffic and a solid anchor in contrast to the bright and clean interior of The Mill . Its walls are constructed of vertical heavy timber and tied together with continuous steel banding along the top edge; its floor is edged and divided by the same heavy timber members and infilled with sand-set brick pavers. Three large, heavy planters bookend the parklet’s two internal spaces: an open area of bench seating and tables with more refined materials, and an area with vertical bike parking based on the racks at our Four Barrel parklet on Valencia Street. Client The Mill BBA Team Seth Boor Bonnie Bridges Size Contractor Roman Hunt Collaborators Photography Studio BBA Back to Projects page Back to top