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Expansive views throughout the marine transportation company offices connect daily operations with the working waterfront beyond. The design supports diverse work modes with a density of uses on each floor—informal work space, private phone rooms, conference rooms and transitional space between. Transparency unites the work of teams while delivering acoustic privacy. In the alcove, environmental graphics showcase the company’s geographic reach. 📷: @k7scott

Posted: 05.27.2022

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This new workplace expresses the strong values of a diverse family of marine transportation and distribution companies, uniting its operations within a single headquarters for the first time. At the office’s heart, shared workspaces radiate from a communicating stair, reinforcing connection between businesses and strengthening personal relationships. A vast art collection—including a 30-foot hand-carved totem pole that ascends three levels—details the vibrant history of the multi-generational family business and brings this legacy to life. 📷: @k7scott

Posted: 05.27.2022

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Among the diverse residents of 1180 Fourth Street in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood are 150 low income, very low income and formerly homeless families and individuals—including about 260 children. The building’s shared spaces are designed to bring residents together in ways both casual and intentional. Residents meet each other, get their mail, say hello to property management staff, and play together after school in the generous, day-lit lobby and garden courtyards. At the center of the block, the upper courtyard offers open greenspace for recreation and social gatherings with easy connectivity to the common room, family daycare units, community garden with ping pong table, and an exercise room. After dusk, the west side of the courtyard features an embedded screen for community movie nights. 📷: @brucedamonte

Posted: 05.23.2022

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In honor of Affordable Housing Month, we’re celebrating Mithun’s decades of commitment to designing multifamily housing that advances health, equity and vibrant urban communities. To date, we’ve designed 4,820 affordable and workforce homes along the West Coast! A few projects featured here include (in order): 1180 Fourth Street, Sansome and Broadway Family Housing, 1036 Mission, Casa Adelante 2060 Folsom, Balboa Park Upper Yard and Casa Adelante 681 Florida. Photos by @brucedamonte, images by Mithun.

Posted: 05.22.2022

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In honor of #AffordableHousingMonth and #ThrowbackThursday, we’re excited to share a favorite from the archives: 1180 Fourth Street. Situated at the gateway into San Francisco’s Mission Bay, the building offers critically needed affordable housing for 150 low-income families, 50 of them formerly homeless. The rich program of tenant services and amenities (emphasizing fitness, nutrition, education and community life) are transformative in the lives of tenants. Details like this exterior stair connect residents with the city and each other: circulation flooded with daylight and city views, a multilevel courtyard at the mid-block, and special nooks for children to explore. Stay tuned for more. 1180 Fourth Street was a recipient of the 2016 AIA Housing Award. 📷: @brucedamonte

Posted: 05.20.2022

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Three housing prototypes combine modular, efficient cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction with biophilic design strategies to create healthy spaces where people live, work and learn. Wood is celebrated as a design element and emerging building technology with exposed CLT shear walls in residential units and key gathering spaces. # Student residences are centrally located at the core, or hearth, while community and amenity areas are showcased at the visible ends of the building. Heavy timber transfer decks at the base of each tower maximize flexibility for university program areas including classrooms, gyms, dining halls and shared campus amenities. Image by @plo.mp for Mithun

Posted: 05.14.2022