A Curbed SF reader sent us the above video of a magical garage door in the Upper Haight. McMills Construction was working on an investment property on Oak Street, and they were scratching their heads over how to build a garage to enhance the tenant's use of the building. As we all know, it's nearly impossible to consistently score a decent parking spot in the Upper Haight. The problem, you see, is that the city planning department had recently started enforcing its mandate to limit changes to the character of historic building's front facades-- especially when it came to converting bay windows into garage doors. Corey McMills, who's got a background in mechanical engineering, thought of an idea to covert the walls of the bay window into door panels that would fold into the garage space to allow cars to enter. The planning department accepted it. McMills Construction teamed up with Beausoleil Architects to help with the details. The result is brilliant.
· Architectural Magic [Beausoleil Architects]
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Garage Porn: Upper Haight Features World's Coolest Garage Door
× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, April 20, 2011, by Sally Kuchar
Friday, January 28, 2011
Digital Age: We Found the Coolest, Most Fun Design-Firm Website of All Time
× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, January 7, 2011, by Sarah
NYC-based designer David Stark has made recent news for the holiday rooms he helped decorate in the State Department building, and we've just been tipped off to Stark's website. It's really something. Have a look at the screen shots above and then head over here to try out the site, which seems like a breath of fresh air compared to other sites in the wild blue yonder.
· Capital City Flies in NYC-Based Designer to Deck the Halls [Curbed National]
· David Stark Design [official site]
· How Members of the Esteemed AD 100 Do Web Design [Curbed National]
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