1787 Fourth Street

This new retail building in Berkeley’s 4^th 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 4^th 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.