The Italian Swiss Colony Building Lobby in San Francisco, Contemporary SF Interior, Architecture Images
The Italian Swiss Colony Building Lobby in San Francisco
Commercial Interior Architecture in California, Western USA – warehouse redesign by jones | haydu
Jul 1, 2018
The Italian Swiss Colony Building Lobby
Architects: jones | haydu
Location: 1265 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Italian Swiss Colony Building Lobby Receives AIA SF Award

The Italian Swiss Colony Warehouse Building, originally designed by Hemenway and Miller and built in 1903, was remodeled and repurposed as an office building in the early ?80s as part of the Levi?s Plaza development. A registered San Francisco Historic Landmark (#102), the building?s exterior facade and structure are protected by preservation guidelines.
The existing lobby for the building is tucked away at the interior of the lot, at the innermost corner of the building. As well, the lobby was further obscured behind a corner open bay of the building. No longer a campus for one tenant, the Plaza has needed new lobbies in many of its buildings over the years.

The goal of the project was to provide more presence for the wide and varied companies moving into the buildings. To do so, the lobby plan extends into the exterior bay. Given the historic limitations on the building, the new bays were infilled with somewhat traditional/historic storefronts. The presence of the lobby begins with a very modern insertion: flat canop...