Working with mission-driven institutions to Define, Plan, and Design facilities that build culture
A contextual Ell addition to a National Register 1732 timber frame thru-hall colonial home with 1930’s additions enhances livability and flexibility of the restored structure. Comfort, sociability, tradition, style, and accessibility considerations drive the restoration and addition to this landmark home on the Wellesley campus. …
The Kelly Cullen Community is a residential development housed in the restored 1909 YMCA Hotel at 220 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco. The existing residential units were altered and restored into 174 units of permanent affordable housing (230 sf units with kitchenettes and full bathrooms) …
Sorensen Partners was Architect for concept design and permitting feasibility for adapting an existing four-story masonry warehouse building into high-rise housing for Boston-based Berkeley Investments in 2017. The first scenario (53,000 GSF/66 units) adapted the existing masonry warehouse building. The second scenario (141,000 GSF/169 units) demolished a …
Sorensen Partners was Charrette Facilitator and Masterplanner for Lawrence Community Works in 2013 to assist residents of the North Common Neighborhood in Lawrence, MA in setting development goals for improving physical community amenities – including housing, public buildings, and parks. The planning process was funded …
The San Francisco Department of Public Health’s new clinic at 220 Golden Gate Avenue serves a chronically homeless population in the center of San Fransicco, adjacent to the Civic Center. Fitting to this civic context, the DPH’s clinic is housed on the ground floor of …
East Avenue Associates, a property owner and manager, hired us to improve the appearance of their class-A commercial office building with a formal landscape design responding to the building’s classical proportions and using hearty local species. The building is located on a busy historic thoroughfare …
Sorensen Partners was Masterplanning Consultant for a major waterfront hotel and casino with San Francisco-based Hornberger + Worstell Architects to research, write and illustrate a planning approvals phase development vision for a large multi-building adaptive re-use project located in California. The work included site history …