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Blood Alley Restaurant Lounge Interior

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A historic downtown landmark, Bank of Italy is one of the most iconic buildings in San Jose. With a rich history based upon Amadeo Giannini's legacy as the founder of Bank of America,the building is distinct in both appearance and location. Bank of Italy's conversion will restore and celebrate its historic architecture while bringing new, inspiring workspace and retail designed to reenergize downtown San Jose, and create a unique destination in the city. 

The tallest tower between San Francisco and L.A. until the 1980s, Bank of Italy is a statement building in the heart of Downtown San Jose whose podium offers some of the most high profile retail space in the city. We’re interested in using this project to bring something different to the city. We envision a mix of workspace, retail and cultural space as a way of bringing creativity to the built environment and also an amazing amenity for downtown San Jose.

Bank of Italy

Arbor is comprised of two buildings: a mass timber structure and the adaptive reuse of the existing Davidson Building, providing over 500,000 sf of workspace and dramatically reducing the carbon emissions and embodied carbon of  
the project.

Designed to maximize connections to nature and the outdoors, through a mix of indoor, outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces, Arbor takes its name from the structure it is conceived as — a framework that is light on the earth yet provides robust support for a diverse ecosystem of healthy, inspiring habitats for  creative work. 

Arbor

The Orchard residential building (409 South 2nd Street) is part of a two project campus, composed of workspace and residential. The residential building is designed to integrate and celebrate the existing mid-century Bo Town restaurant structure on the site at the corner of San Salvador and S 2nd Street. The building adopts an L-shaped plan designed to both maximize the efficiency of its program and highlight the heritage of the restaurant, with its iconic folded roof and populuxe, space age-inspired elements. The residential building includes approximately 520 market rental homes. 

The Orchard Residential

The Energy Hub is designed to complement the adjacent Bank of Italy building also by BIG, while creating a mix of retail, rental residential and workspace with expansive floorplates. Connecting two alleys on either side of the site, an arch cuts through the project creating an expanded public realm and urban room that will activate the entire surrounding neighborhood. The Energy Hub’s name comes from the two kinds of energy it creates: the photovoltaic panels on the louvers and the roof harness energy from the sun and the public realm generates human energy, from the connections and interactions it helps foster. 

The Energy Hub

The Orchard Workspace has been designed to allow for ultimate efficiency, flexibility and modularity, integrating nature throughout with a vertical orchard. The project is comprised of over 1.3M sf of workspace, adjacent to a separate residential building.

Through a collaboration with WRNS Studio, the design of 300 South 1st Street has evolved to be broken into two towers above a low podium which offers over 1.3M sf of workspace with expansive floorplates of up to 100,000 sf. We feel that this design change will provide a variety of offerings to the market and also create a unique opportunity for a rooftop theatre / amenity space. 

The Orchard Workspace

Designed to elevate and celebrate nature in downtown San Jose, Park Habitat is composed of workspace, retail and a museum, interwoven with vegetation and a verdant landscape. Bordered by the Convention Center, the Tech Interactive, San Jose Civic Center and Plaza de Cesar Chavez, the project blends deep sustainability, natural elements and an expansive public realm, to form a connection point and an anchor for a cultural district in the city.

Park Habitat

Broadway & Alma is a new rental project on Vancouver’s West Side, bordered by Kitsilano and Point Grey, and our first project to be completely designed by the boutique Vancouver-based design firm, Leckie Studio. A young, award-winning interdiscipinary practice whose past focus has centred on beautifully-designed single family homes, our collaborations with Leckie Studio to date have created some of their first multi-family residential designs.

We are committed to making a significant long term contribution to Vancouver’s rental housing supply and this project will bring approximately 164 secured rental units, with 20% of the residential floor area for to moderate income households. 

Broadway & Alma

Designed by Henriquez Partners Architects, Blood Alley is comprised of 62 market and 80 non-market rental homes, an underground restaurant/lounge space, retail and a public plaza. The project will retain the historic character of the existing Stanley Hotel and the New Fountain Hotel, through the rehabilitation of the entire original façade, and features retail at grade designed by OSO, as well as two floors of below-grade restaurant/lounge space. A breezeway running through the project will interconnect Blood Alley Square with Cordova St, inspired by the Corso Como of Milan.

Westbank is creating Blood Alley with the goal of establishing a new, dynamic gathering place in the community, with arts and culture focused programming that will enrich the cultural landscape of our city.

Blood Alley Restaurant and Lounge by OSO

The restaurant and lounge are made up of a series of parallel arches that connect the street and the plaza – the front and the back – of the building. The arches are clad in bent aluminum panels and perforated with countless small triangles that appear like overlapping leaves in a forest. Numerous light fixtures are placed behind the holes to illuminate the interiors. The combination of ambient and sharp lights creates a hazy atmosphere with penetrating light rays like a sun-dappled garden.
