22 Facts About MBH Architects

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MBH Architects is an architecture and interior design firm founded in October 1989 by architects John McNulty and Dennis Heath.

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MBH Architects has specialized in retail, hospitality, and high-density residential design, and its list of clients includes Adidas, Estee Lauder, Kmart, Rite Aid, Starbucks, and Walgreens.

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One of MBH Architects's first sustainable projects was a 100,000+ square foot Target store, built in 1995, Fullerton, CA.

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Today MBH Architects employs over 150 staff who provide architectural services on commercial, hospitality, retail, multi-family housing, and restaurant projects.

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In 2017, MBH expanded its East Coast presence with the acquisition of New York-based Anderson Architects.

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In 2018, MBH acquired Christiani Johnson Architects, a San Francisco-based architecture and interior design firm.

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MBH Architects has designed several P F Chang's China Bistros, receiving several awards for their designs.

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MBH Architects has built over 2,225 units and designed more than 9,000 units.

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MBH Architects's design kept most of the building's brick exterior, masonry, heavy timber framing, and granite foundations while juxtaposing them against modern material.

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The building is known as Harbor Lofts and MBH Architects received a Gold Nugget Award for Award of Merit, Adaptive Reuse in 1997 for the conversion.

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MBH Architects received a Gold Nugget Award for converting the old building into 53 luxury lofts and two high-end restaurants on the ground floor.

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In 2004, MBH Architects won the Residential Architect Award and the 2003 Gold Nugget Award for the North Beach Malt House, an early 20th-century industrial concrete and steel building.

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MBH Architects converted the inner structure to residential spaces but retained two of the original steel silos; the building's most prominent features.

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MBH Architects planned the interior office space for the 7,500 square feet headquarters of MetroRisk in South Beach, San Francisco.

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MBH Architects completed several space plans for the Union Bank of California and the redesign of the corporate headquarters of Bi-Rite Food Distributors.

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MBH Architects has been an executive architect and design architect for Hilton Worldwide and Marriott International.

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MBH Architects has completed for Marriott: the Marriott Event Pavilion in Irvine, California; Newport Coast Villas in Newport Beach, California, which includes 600 timeshare units on 75 acres; and Marriott's Shadow Ridge in Palm Desert, California.

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Currently MBH Architects is working on the seismic upgrade of the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square along with the renovation of the Grand Ballroom and Tower 3 guestrooms.

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MBH Architects designed The San Francisco Fire Credit Union, which received a Gold Nugget award of merit in 2001 for Best Professional Building and completed Serramonte Corporate Center in Daly City, California in 2003, now home to Kaiser Permanente.

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Some largest MBH Architects projects have revolved around community, city, and public transit planning.

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MBH Architects designed transit-oriented developments in Fullerton, Dublin, and Solano, California, and the downtown and neighborhood revitalizations for Yucca Valley, CA.

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MBH Architects has worked with Bay Area non-profit The Good Tidings Foundation on a variety of projects including the Foundation's past and current headquarters and multiple LeRoy Neiman Art Studios.

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