League of Forward Thinkers

With the push to increase sustainability in construction, building codes are being adapted to allow for taller mass timber structures. These code changes have enabled the wider application of mass timber construction, particularly in the

FRACTURED VS. UNIFIED BACKGROUND: At the corner of Vermont and Manchester avenues, a lot that has been left vacant and blighted since the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Uprising, will be filled with a new mixed-use

Rigid vs. Organic Background: UC Davis is engaged in the most ambitious student housing construction initiative in its history. The Orchard Park Redevelopment Project aims to support their campus’s strong sense of community, offer students

Mass Timber is not a new idea, it has been around for years. However, we are seeing an expansion of Mass Timber innovation with the advances in technology to make “engineered” products. Mjøstårnet in Norway,

Our team recently toured One Uptown Newport located off Jamboree Road (within walking distance from our Irvine office!) in Newport Beach, California.  The 458-unit multifamily building began leasing phase one with the first residents moving

TCA’s Hospitality Studio uses strategic planning to insert a new hotel into a commercial office site.   There are towns in Southern California that take pains to preserve the iconic environmental features that originally defined

TCA’s Hospitality Studio helps re-craft the InterContinental SF to suit millennial tastes.   Hotel interiors get a make-over every five to seven years. Materials get worn, fashions change and customer expectations evolve. Over the past

What to do with parking structures in a future with driverless cars? As Tesla, Apple, Google, and others develop technology for autonomous cars, will there be a need for all the parking that we provide

Architects talk about the way a building “feels.”  What they’re really talking about is the “scale” of the building, and the relationship of your personal scale to the scale of the overall space. VR allows

Here in the Bay Area automated parking systems, usually in the form of “puzzle lifts” are gaining wide market acceptance and have become the norm for TCA projects in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro,