Gelfand Partners Architects

A great video by EBALDC featuring one of our very special rehabilitation projects in Oakland's Chinatown - historic Madison Park Apartments. Built in 1908, this 98 unit building was the largest wooden structure west of the Mississippi, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. #sustainablearchitecture #Bcorp #oakland #oaklandchinatown #ebaldc

As #BCorpMonth comes to a close, we're reminded that #BetterBusiness means creating a company with strong values which is why, as a Certified B Corporation, we’ve embedded them into our business. We believe in putting people before profit, the planet before profit and that business should be a force for good. #BetterBusiness #WeAreBCorps

Gelfand Partners Architects is proud to be a Certified B Corporation. B Corps are businesses working to build stronger communities, more inclusive and equitable companies, and a healthier planet. We set the standard for a better way to do business. Join the movement: follow @bcorpuscan #BetterBusiness #WeAreBCorps #BCorpMonth

Gelfand Partners Architects stands with all of our Asian communities against against acts of violence, xenophobia, and racism of any kind. We are disheartened by the recent shootings of Asian American women in Atlanta, Georgia. The recent increasing number of anti-Asian violence reports underscores the urgency of raising awareness around Anti-Asian racism. The ongoing and escalating acts of hate and violence toward our Asian community must stop. #StopAsianHate #SocialJusticeLabel #BCorp

Our president Lisa Gelfand has been shortlisted for the World Architecture News 2021 Female Frontiers Awards in the Innovation in Architecture category! We’re so excited to showcase our work alongside an incredible cohort of women architects also committed to innovative and sustainable design. Check out the full shortlist here: https://www.wanfemalefrontierawards.com/shortlist/ #WANFFAWARDS #WANAwards21 #femalefrontierawards

Great video about two of our best projects, Park Avenue Senior Apartments and Laurel Grove Family Apartments in San Jose, CA - for the Santa Clara County Housing Authority. Congratulations to Chris Duncan and the project team! #AffordableHousing #SustainableArchitecture #BCorp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEp-oAdfbb8&t=1s

Wishing you happy holidays and a healthy, prosperous new year, from all of us at Gelfand Partners Architects.

Who needs a car when you can ride an E-bike to work! Principals Larry Schadt and Lisa Gelfand departing the GPA office! #bcorp #sustainabledesign #architecture

Halloween Bingo happy hour. Spooktacular!

Check out our Modernization/Expansion of Greenleaf TK-8 School, located in Oakland, CA, on the Education Snapshots publication! #SustainableArchitecture #Modernization #LearningEnvironments #PublicSchools #BCorp

Gelfand Partners loves all our wonderful non-profit partners, but the work of the Land Trust is a personal passion of mine - in these times, with the need to take care of our forest lands and to find our friends and pleasure outdoors, it's especially important - Lisa

Santa Clara County Housing Authority's Park Avenue Apartments - 100 units of affordable senior housing in a four story over podium building, with shared outdoor space on every floor to allow daylight into the corridors. The sustainable design features photovoltaic panels, solar thermal, and enhanced ventilation. #AffordableHousing #SustainableArchitecture #BCorp

Moving On & Moving Up In the midst of all the problems in the world today, we are pleased to announce some exciting happenings in our own small world! First we would like to thank Principals Jim Fagler and Tobin Kendrick for all they have brought to Gelfand Partners, and to wish them well in retirement. In only a few years they might be old enough to run for president!... Mary Ruppenthal, our once and future star, is rejoining us as a Principal with a focus on K-14 projects. We welcome her to our wonderful and just a little wacky education world. It’s a great time to focus on just what makes a campus work best indoor outdoor continuity, healthy classrooms, daylight it’s great to find that Mary has been out in the world innovating, and is now back home with Gelfand Partners. And we would like to congratulate Patty Haight and Katie Larson on promotion to Associate. Patty has made a big difference in her Construction Administration role and she looks forward to helping develop a more active and deliberate professional development program for our office. Katie has led the way into new graphic standards both for marketing and for client communication, and has really raised the level of our interiors practice. To celebrate all these changes, we would like to honor our friends in another way. Gelfand Partners will donate to each of the following groups, and we would like to invite you to join us in honoring our colleagues by supporting their goals, in whatever way you can: Jim: http://www.sfsafehouse.org/ Tobin: https://www.glide.org/ Mary: www.calyouth.org Katie: https://www.fivekeyshomefree.org/ Patty: https://headwatersscienceinstitute.org/ We hope you’ll join us in what feels like a special opportunity, not only to celebrate the achievements of the past, but look forward to all that we will accomplish together as time goes on.

Help Five Keys right wrongs

Gelfand Partners volunteers at clean-up day on Treasure Island, for @5KeysHomeFree - an organization committed to providing transitional homes, life skills, and survivor empowerment to women who have been unjustly incarcerated after protecting themselves and their families from domestic abuse. We are so grateful to be a part of this incredible project. Please find out more at https://www.fivekeyshomefree.org/ #homefree #sustainablearchitecture #architecture #5KeysHomeFree #BCorp

Happy Pride! #pride50 #BLM

Gelfand Partners Architects is proud to announce that Mary Ruppenthal, AIA, LEED AP, DBIA, has rejoined the firm as a Principal. Read more at www.gelfand-partners.com/news.

These are trying times. To help maintain safety in the community and in our practice Gelfand Partners is working remotely, using our digital tools to collaborate both in meetings and over our virtual drawing boards. Because school and affordable housing construction are indeed essential! #BCorp

With the shelter-at-home mandate in the Bay Area, our employees are working from home. We #ChoosetoB every day by working for a company that does projects in the public interest, because even with the pandemic we'll still need quality affordable housing and healthy sustainable schools. #BCorpMonth #VoteEveryDay #BusinessAsAForceforGood

Meet our trio of B Keepers - Ken, Katie and Austen. We've been busy B's this year, representing #BCorps at Architecture events, learning & networking at the Champions Retreat and @BLocalBayArea events. We're motivated to improve this world with healthy, sustainable buildings. Learn more at gelfand-partners.com. #BCorpMonth #VoteEveryDay #BusinessAsAForceforGood

#BCorpMonth #VoteEveryDay #BusinessAsaForceforGood

For International Women's Day we're celebrating the amazing women of Gelfand Partners! We're proud that our workforce is 65% women and the Architecture staff is 63% women. #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInArchitecture #BCorp