Two of ENVELOPE's favorite projects,

and , are part of Center for Architecture + Design's new exhibition titled This exhibition explores how San Francisco’s built environment has transformed over the past 25 years. Through snapshots of new and renewed places, it reveals changing patterns in how we live, work, move, and gather, offering glimpses of both familiar icons and unexpected spaces in a city that is always evolving.

The Hunters Point Shoreline is a public open space born out of a far-reaching public access, interim use, and community engagement strategy for the former Hunters Point Power Plant site. For this historically disenfranchised community, improving the shoreline edge of this site represents an important step forward in a decades-long struggle for environmental justice.

PROXY is a temporary open space activation of two vacant parcels in the heart of San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. A placeholder for more permanent development, PROXY employs a more nimble model for development—a flexible urbanism—for the world’s rapidly changing cities.

See the exhibition from September 4, 2025 – January 19, 2026 at:

140 Sutter Street, SF, CA 94104 Monday + Friday | 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Tuesday – Thursday | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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