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  • City of Piedmont Design Award !

    We’re very honored to have been chosen by the City of Piedmont for their Design Award! In this historical house remodel among other improvements we opened up a dark, cramped kitchen onto the adjacent dining-room and added a full set of multi-fold glass-doors to the dining area to enhance the indooor-outdoor flow and bring in…

  • New Coastal Home completed

     We just received the photos of of our latest completed new house in Gualala, on the California coast: A short write up about the project below, and more photos throughout the website. Gualala, just north of Sea Ranch, is a seaside town that holds many beautiful wooded areas. The site of this home was an…

  • New Gualala Forest Home

    A sneak peak preview of our latest finished project, a new house in the forest of Gualala, along the California Coast. We’ll post professional photos soon! We’re grateful for the great craftsmanship by the entire building team !

  • EcoLodge for Urban Adamah farm

    The new EcoLodge we have designed for Urban Adamah is raising! This one-of-a-kind 46 bed retreat residence will host overnight campouts, retreats and special events giving access to this  fabulous community farm and education center. This is the latest in a series of buildings we are designing for their  two-acre campus in Berkeley, in the…

  • Spreading good design

    Two projects from our Studio have been featured in a couple different recent publications: The just released book ‘My Creative Space’ showcases a hillside split-level, multi-use accessory building that combines a gym and bath +carport +rooftop deck for viewing tennis matches and easily doubles as a party space: Our library wrapping books all around a…

  • Urban Farm Eagle Project

    The last Eagle Scout project under Scoutmaster Alex (Bergtraun 🙂 ’s guidance was inaugurated with a very nice ceremony at Urban Adamah, where Studio Bergtraun is continuing to fulfill the Master Plan vision for this urban farm with a series of buildings now under construction. Berkeley’s Troop 6 boyscouts, their families and the U.A. community gathered under the Grape Arbor which now shields the Farm campus from the…

  • Rebuilding in the Fire Zone

    For the past year Studio Bergtraun has been actively involved helping Homeowners in Calistoga and Santa Rosa rebuild their fire destroyed homes in the area. Construction is now under way for 3 homes and we’re extremely happy at the progress on all of them!    We look very much forward to everyone  being able to…

  • The Sea Ranch: One exhibit and Two new homes!

    First of all: We’d like to remind everyone of the SFMOMA ‘The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism’ exhibit around till June 2nd, don’t miss it ! Second: We’re excited to share the first steps for two new homes we’re very happy to be designing in this special enclave, adding to our Sea Ranch portfolio which includes ‘The Fisch House’…

  • What Architecture is all about

    This Sunday Studio Bergtraun attended the beautiful ribbon cutting ceremony for Grace Lutheran Church new Narthex. The Bishop came specially to bless it and it was wonderful to witness the feelings of community and renewal that accomplishing this new space brought on. This IS what architecture is all about!!

  • NEW HOME in GUALALA

    We are very excited that the new home we have been working on in Gualala (just north of Sea Ranch) has entered into framing stage! Take a look below at some great aerial shots taken by drone and more.