Fourth Street Retail Re-imagined

A modern retail building for Berkeley's 4th Street District read more...

This new retail building in Berkeley’s 4th Street shopping district is really an old building re-imagined.  Working with a 50+ year old cinderblock structure, we removed ten feet from the front of the building and replaced the area with a new modern glass façade, new pedestrian walkway, and a double row of public seat walls. The steel and gunmetal plaster design, developed with Abrams Millikan, draws on 4th Street’s industrial past. The design counters industrial custom awnings and corten steel columns with wood benches, traditional street lights and new planters of soft native grasses.