INTERSTICE Architects

INTERSTICE Architects IA is an integrated Architecture, Landscape Architecture + Urban Design Firm located in San Francisco.

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Or visit our site @ INTERSTICEarchitects.com INTERSTICE Architects was founded in 2000 by architect Andrew Dunbar, and landscape architect Zoee Astrachan. After years of working in separate disciplines, the arbitrary distinctions were just too constraining, so INTERSTICE was born as a multidisciplinary firm of architects, landscape architects ur

ban designers and visual artists. Over the past ten years, this critical practice has grown designing public and private spaces on projects of multiple scales, making buildings and places focused on the broadest possible interpretation of the constructed realm. As an integrated practice, IA combines professional services for residential, commercial and institutional architectures & landscapes, concentrating the experience of these shared disciplines to create a civic minded practice, where all staff are active citizens and advocates for better communities. Working with private clients, City Agencies, Redevelopment Agencies, Task Forces and other institutional organizations we design collaborations rather than dictating solutions, viewing constraints as opportunities, we reach for the unexpected by exposing root problems. Our interest in materials and phenomena is guided by a strong belief in high performance design and rigorous detailing. Personally and professionally, we reside in the city and create from an immersed point of view. Our work is inspired by constant research into the urban condition and those idiosyncratic social, historical and ecological aspects that make each project challenging and distinctive. Collaborating closely with our diverse clients, from private, residential, to institutional and civic agencies, IA works without walls, in a very big room, with lots of extra chairs...

05/29/2026

Architecture and interior design by INTERSTICE Architects. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory De Paul Lobby, Cathedral Hill — transforming a cold, open-air courtyard beneath St. Mary's Cathedral into a warm, enclosed foyer for the arts that doubles as a student gallery, classroom, and gathering hub.

05/28/2026

Landscape and streetscape by INTERSTICE Architects at MIRA SF (Transbay Block 1). A series of rooftop spaces integrated into a vertical residential neighborhood with vegetated roof habitat, a birch grove court, and faceted urban canyon connect this urban oasis to the surrounding streetscape.

05/20/2026

Architecture and interior design by INTERSTICE Architects. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory De Paul Lobby, Cathedral Hill — transforming a cold, open-air courtyard beneath St. Mary's Cathedral into a warm, enclosed foyer for the arts that doubles as a student gallery, classroom, and gathering hub.

05/13/2026

Architecture and interior design by INTERSTICE Architects.

Mia Carta Wine Tasting Room, downtown Napa — transforming a vacant 1914 landmark into a lively street-level destination.

Architecture and landscape design by INTERSTICE Architects.The Saratoga Beach House in Comox, BC — designed to float abo...
05/02/2026

Architecture and landscape design by INTERSTICE Architects.

The Saratoga Beach House in Comox, BC — designed to float above a natural floodplain, preserving 350-year-old Douglas fir trees. Featured in the New York Times and HGTV.

04/30/2026

Architecture and landscape design by INTERSTICE Architects.

The Saratoga Beach House in Comox, BC — designed to float above a natural floodplain, preserving 350-year-old Douglas fir trees. Featured in the New York Times and HGTV.

INTERSTICE spent a recent late autumn day photographing our landscape design for the nearly opened Palo Alto Public Safe...
12/11/2025

INTERSTICE spent a recent late autumn day photographing our landscape design for the nearly opened Palo Alto Public Safety Building with photographer Andrea Gaffney. Looking forward to sharing her photos of this new public space with its generous seating, raised native bio treatment meadow plantings and public art.

Salvaging and re-using trees is a commitment to circularity and an experiential way of honoring the immense value of the...
11/13/2025

Salvaging and re-using trees is a commitment to circularity and an experiential way of honoring the immense value of these majestic mature oaks that are a signature of the historic Campus.

The Coast Live and Valley Oaks are being taken down to make way for a new and important research laboratory building at Stanford’s School of Medecine.

We are proud to be part of a team harvesting and repurposing these beautiful trees to create new large scale natural elements, carefully curated and shaped, into the future of this building, its landscape and the larger campus that surrounds it.

IA has designed shaped live-edge slabs from these trees to create seating and “drifting” garden elements as part of a new entry garden and future enhanced oak grove nearby.

We are collaborating with a superb team of in design and construction, over the past several years and for the next two years to bring the project to completion.

Our recent visit to is the next step in the process of seeing the harvested oaks transformed into beautiful and lasting features of the future landscape.

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Tree Harvesting Project Management:
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Landscape Architect: INTERSTICE Architects

Come visit San Francisco’s first bark!et! Designed by INTERSTICE and spearheaded by Lower Polk Neighbors and LPCBD.  It’...
09/21/2023

Come visit San Francisco’s first bark!et! Designed by INTERSTICE and spearheaded by Lower Polk Neighbors and LPCBD. It’s open for dogs to enjoy!

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1173 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA
94109

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