TCA Architects

Evermont

tcaeditor - Jan 16, 2026

Evermont is an affordable transit-oriented mixed-use development, with 118 family units, and 62 homeless supportive senior units, 50K SF of ground level retail and restaurants, along with an on-site metro job training office, and resident health services. The project is located near transit for ease of commute, and in a neighborhood with a strong need for housing. The multi-generational living, along with diverse retail services, help to create a vibrant and safe community within the neighborhood. At the ground level, a public pedestrian plaza becomes an active gathering space for locals. Evermont’s façade is planar with strategic ‘carve-outs’ to allow light into interior courtyards and provide an opportunity for a material and massing break. The project achieved LEED Gold certification.

The Tolman

tcaeditor - Nov 25, 2025

The Tolman is a 6-story, mixed-use, wrap project that activates Fremont’s downtown core with new market rate units along with 6,300 SF of retail. Infilled on a former retail site, the project creates new pedestrian walks and courtyards among the new retail and residences, creating a vibrant community that can live, work and play. The modern architecture style has cool crisp stucco colors, with accents of metal and composite woods. The project provides 6,600 SF of resident amenities including a roofdeck, pool and lounge area, BBQ area, test kitchen, meeting rooms, bike shop/storage, pet care, clubhouse, game room, and fitness center.

CASPIAN

tcaeditor - Sep 25, 2025

Caspian is the gateway site into the Brooklyn Basin master plan located at Embarcadero and Brooklyn Basin Way. The building is broken down into multiple facades inspired by the Oakland Estuary and surrounding industrial maritime facilities, with the facades relating to each other to create a cohesive design. On Brooklyn Basin Way the retail takes priority with grand corners, deep recesses and rich materials to break down the street wall into a pleasant pedestrian environment. Bike facilities located on Embarcadero, help activate the street and encourage residents to use the new bike lanes connecting to the rest of Oakland. Multiple breaks; step downs and set backs scale down the size of the project. Large courtyards and roof decks provide ample outdoor space as well as view terraces. Facing the freeway, the nautical theme is played up with dramatic angles reminiscent of a ship’s bow which landmarks the entire Brooklyn Basin master plan.

THE REDWOOD DOWNTOWN

tcaeditor - Jan 25, 2025

The Redwood Downtown introduces 35 units of much-needed affordable workforce housing to Crescent City. This ground-up, infill development transforms a vacant downtown site into a vibrant mixed-use community with retail, advancing the City’s revitalization goals and strengthening the downtown core. To embrace the Northwest style, the structure has no stucco and is covered by siding resembling redwood, providing durability for the climate.

VOX AT CUMULUS

TCA Architect - Jan 14, 2025

Located directly adjacent to the La Cienega/Jefferson Expo Line, VOX at Cumulus is a comprehensive residential and commercial mixed-use project that embodies all the defining characteristics of a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). The site plan and architecture respond directly to the urban scale, fabric, and culture of its surroundings. The design is inspired by the notions of progress, change, and motion: the La Cienega frontage undulates back and forth to create a dynamic façade and to help break up the mass. VOX is a 7-story type III podium building, with access to 160,000 SF of indoor and outdoor amenities. The heart of the project features a publicly accessible 1-acre park, the Zocalo, and is flanked by 100k SF of commercial space, anchored by a new Whole Foods Market. In addition to providing a space for community events, such as movie nights and hosting food trucks, the Zocalo also serves to capture storm water and reduce the heat island effect. Those elements go hand-in-hand with more than 1,700 solar panels built into the complex, which helped the property achieve GreenPoint Rated Platinum certification. The master plan of the 11.4 Acre Cumulus District is guided by the principles of connectivity and placemaking.

ARQ at Cumulus (high-rise on-site) designed by SCB.

5420 Sunset

tcaeditor - Dec 20, 2024

5420 Sunset is a six-story mixed-use 735-unit apartment building that will also house 95,000 SF of ground level retail. The retail level will be home to an up-scale national brand grocer offering food service and on-site dining. A new residential community will sit just above street level within lushly landscaped courts surrounding a resort style pool that looks out to the Hollywood hills, Griffin Observatory, and the Hollywood Sign. The buildings’ exterior design language reflects a piece of Hollywood’s history by evoking a modern interpretation of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, with an emphasis on horizontality, simple forms, geometric patterns, and an earthy palette of material finishes.

AERO CROSSINGS

tcaeditor - Oct 19, 2024

Aero Crossings transforms the 10-acre site of a former Fry’s Electronics into a thriving residential and mixed-use community within Burbank’s primary commercial, employment and transit district. Two 7-story buildings total 862 units (including 5 live-work units and 9 townhouses) and provide 9,700 SF of retail. Both buildings have multiple courtyards, amenities, retail space at grade, and a sky deck located on the 6th story of their parking garages. The project is immediately adjacent to both the Hollywood Burbank Metrolink Station and the Hollywood Burbank Airport. TCA took over as A.O.R. for the entitled project and re-entitled the project. Design changes included enhancing the ground level experience by opening and widening the courtyards, increasing dedicated pedestrian access, and combining isolated retail into one program. The project is targeting LEED Gold.

Original design by Urban Architecture Lab, with design modifications and Architect of Record services by TCA.

THE TOWNSEND

tcaeditor - Oct 17, 2024

The new high-density mixed-use apartment project on a 5.13 Acre site in Mission Valley, San Diego, provides 267 residential units and 10 shopkeeper units. The Type III apartment building wraps a 5-story Type I parking garage, and provides 3,600 square feet of commercial and 6,000 square feet of retail use. Organized around 3 courtyards which are programmed with residential amenities, the building’s architecture is designed in a contemporary style. Fundamental to the design is the connection of pedestrian access to and from the site. Holding the edge of the buildings 20 feet back from the curb of Camino De La Reina and carving out a 4,000 square-foot space for corner and central public plazas provides a vibrant, pedestrian-oriented atmosphere. Locating the project’s “front door” adjacent to the large central public plaza allows for a sense of arrival and shared pedestrian experience between residents and public visitors. The project achieved LEED Gold certification.

Wallace on Sunset

tcaeditor - Sep 30, 2024

Wallace on Sunset is a 7-story, 200 unit mixed-use project containing 4,700 SF of ground floor retail in Los Angeles, CA. In response to its context, which dramatically varies on all four sides of the site, the project uses simple rectangular masses. These masses are broken up with undulations and pops of color on the facade. Balcony railings consist of aluminum and glass on the outward facing facades to preserve views and minimal metal rails at the courtyards. The sweeping frame around the fitness center’s glass volume along with the solid canopies above the balconies is sheathed with pre-finished metal panels. Wallace on Sunset achieved LEED Gold certification.

Original design and Entitlement by HED Architects, with design modifications and Architect of Record services by TCA.

HANOVER DIRIDON

tcaeditor - Sep 25, 2024

Hanover Diridon at 717 West Julian sits on the edge of two worlds in San Jose- a lower density largely residential neighborhood of bungalows and apartment buildings, and the planned “Innovation District” as envisioned as part of the Diridon Station Plan in San Jose. The Innovation District includes planned housing as well as a large office presence from some of Silicon Valley’s largest employers. The building design expresses this nexus in three parts- a larger scaled gesture to the future district, a reduced scale rhythm to the residential district, and a dramatic corner gesture and plaza where the two meet.