Located in a bedroom community midway between Osaka and Kyoto, this facility has both Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing levels of care. The landscape design, complementing the modernist architecture, is organic and fluid with meandering paths traversing various gardens on the south side of the building connecting feature terraces located at each end of the building spine.
Sonoma Center for Climate Action & Innovation
Home to rolling woodland hills, miles of coastline, and the birthplace of California’s modern wine industry, climate change’s impact on Sonoma County spans sea-level rise, wildfires, and droughts, to name a few. To guide the County, region, and beyond towards a more resilient future, the Center for Climate Action & Innovation (CCAI) is envisioned as a cent...
San Bruno Recreation & Aquatic Center
The Recreation Center and associated outdoor spaces in City Park form the new social heart of San Bruno. Group 4 Architecture and SWA designed the project to declutter and open up City Park by consolidating separate gym and pool complexes into a single building nestled into the park’s hillside edge. The result produced a larger adjacent meadow, grander v...
Huntington Memorial Hospital
SWA Group acted as consultant to the architect on the development of a long-range master plan for the expansion of this existing hospital as well as landscape design and development for the 220,000 square foot phase one addition. The hospital facility’s design includes streetscape, a major entry drive and plaza, and on structure gardens with fountains adjacent...
Ping Yuen Public Housing Renovation
The San Francisco public housing projects known as “pings” are widely viewed as successful. Part of this success is a direct result of their ties with the wider Chinatown community: they are comparatively low-crime, and their tenants are well-organized. Composed of four buildings with 434 units, 2,000+ residents, and five acres of landscape, the Pings are a pa...