1100 Clay Design Tour

This tour will start at the Plaza with a discussion about the larger plan for the block. After the plaza, we will explore the building lobby, various amenity spaces, a residential unit, and conclude with pastries and coffee/tea on the roof deck.

1150 Clay energizes the commercial quadrant of Oakland’s City Center with bold design and a mixed-use program consisting of 288 homes, two retail spaces and a new public plaza. Like a provocative party guest who makes the conversations more interesting – the architecture contrasts and redefines the neighborhood character with stark tonality, material warmth, and a pedestrian-friendly cadence.  This is the first phase of a larger master plan to redevelop City-owned property that includes the 1150 Clay parcel to the west, the existing below grade parking garage (the roof of which became the new public plaza), and the balance of the property fronting 11th street which will be the future home of Samuel Merritt College designed by Perkins + Will.  The cumulative result will be a mixed-use city block consisting of retail, residential, and institutional/ educational uses. 

Since 2004, Kennerly Architecture & Planning has made design and construction of innovative mixed-use and multi-family buildings a cornerstone of its practice.  Starting with smaller multi-unit infill buildings, their work has grown to include award-winning mixed-use projects on challenging infill and brown-field sites throughout the Bay Area. Working at a range of scales from homes to high rises, interior design to urban planning projects, the firm has developed a reputation for the thoughtful integration of program, context, and innovative design that challenges the status-quo.  At 1150 Clay, Kennerly worked with the CIM Group and HKS architects to re-conceive an existing entitled design concept from the inside out: expanding the building envelope, replanning the dwelling units, designing the interiors and amenity spaces, and reconceiving the skin to be beautiful and to meet budget. The Plaza design was a collaboration with Oakland landscape architecture firm, Einwiller-Kuehl.