GeorgeArchitecture—Commercial: Architect for Pasadena, Los Angeles, and Southern California—Modern, Traditional, Mediterranean, Craftsman, Japanese

Commercial Projects
Our commercial projects include office, automotive and service, mixed use, and tenant improvement, and encompass new construction, additions, and remodels. A hallmark of our commercial design is the introduction of residential concepts and comforts into the work environment. Our retail projects include; High-end, boutique, showroom and retail, and automotive and service. Our restaurant projects include; Fine dining, casual, quick-serve, and franchises. Our retail and restaurant projects have provided us the opportunity to introduce our product, graphic, and branding design experience, and have featured strong integration of outdoor environments.
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Restaurants
Our restaurant work highlights our ability to develop a strong Program, with technical expertise and grace, while creating memorable and evocative spaces reflecting our Owner's concepts. The Concept Development phase is perhaps the most important, and one of our strengths, integrating imagery and spacial ideas with menu and workflow fundamentals as the backbone. Our back-of-house expertise includes menu design and analysis, complete equipment specification and space planning, workflow analysis, and budgeting. Our front of house expertise includes space planning, fixture and furnishings, lighting design, and accessories. We work well with clients who have their own specifications and technical requirements already established, those who need assistance with Concept Development, or those seeking a complete Design-Build package.

Office and Retail
Our office work capitalizes on the understanding of comfort and quality spaces developed in our residential practice and brings it to the work environment. Our resulting commercial spaces thus possess those qualities more akin to residential environments—interior/exterior connections, quality daylighting, hierarchy and progression, and strong materiality. Our buildings are comfortable places to work within, form strong and dynamic interactions with people and the environment, and respect the notion that, often times, a majority of our waking hours are spent in these environments.

Common Themes:

Compositional Basics
The fundamenals of design and composition should not be undervalued or downplayed even though they might seem familiar or well-known.

Light and Shadow
As the prime animator of architecture, and most profound environmental component, light and shadow plays a key role in our designs

Hierarchy
Most of our designs develop depth and complexity through the development of basic hierarchies and relationships.

Indoor-Outdoor
As cliché as it might seem, this timeless theme offers an infinite number of permutations.

Materialality
The nature, understanding, application, and importance of material selection cannot be over-emphasized in its effect and importance.

Scale
All buildings share a multiplicity of scales.

Population
Most buildings facilitate human interaction, in varying numbers, and to varying degrees.

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1000 Fremont Avenue
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South Pasadena, CA 91030
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