MacCracken Architects

MacCracken Architects has been a multi-service architecture firm since its inception in 1985. We have completed projects for clients in a broad geographic range from the San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley and Truckee to Boston and New York. Our design impetus begins with gathered information - client wishes and requirements, the site and its environment, culture and context - in an effort to blend pragmatic and poetic elements in our work. We are inspired by the process of translating owner vision and program and site context into specific principles that lend rationale to our design work and result in beautiful, functionally excellent spatial environments.

A slowly growing business decided to consolidate and unify it's presence, with a multiple floor renovation of 40,000 SF. Workstations cluster together to provide a balance of connectivity and privacy. The warmth of cork and wood veneer guide the occupants of the Grace building through curved circulation spaces. Private rooms integrate with the open office floor plan by using frameless glass partitions and continuous ceiling planes.

A former 300,000 SF auto production plant was converted into individual maker spaces to accommodate tenants who range from woodworkers to brewmasters to drone fabricators to VR modeling. As a tenant amenity, MacCracken Architects was engaged to revise an 18,000 SF open space in the center of the floor plan to provide. The first of a four phase project at Sugar Bowl ski resort, consisting of 23 ski-in/ski-out units ranging from 900 sqft to 1,500 sqft. Inspired by Gold Rush era machinery and structures, we celebrated the indigenous California mountain elements.