Green, Common Spaces Equal to Form-Function

Jones’ assignments are reflections of the ways in which his business is evolving to placemaking.

SAN FRANCISCO—Stephen Francis Jones and his team at SFJones Architects are bucking the cliché that bigger is better with at the Pavilions at Veranda in Concord, CA, where small structures not much bigger than a food truck and a common seating area offer an outdoor twist on the traditional mall food court. His other recent projects run the gamut: developing the Foundry & Lux business campus at Oyster Cove in South San Francisco, rebuilding homes destroyed by the fire in Santa Rosa and creating new spaces for medical collectives to restaurateur clients.

And, his assignments are reflections of the ways in which Jones is evolving his business from architecture and design to placemaking–using thoughtful and efficient design concepts to make businesses, offices and homes more sustainable, livable and unique. The idea behind placemaking has always been at the heart of Jones’ work, wherein social spaces allow relationships to be formed, bonds to be reinforced and communities to be built.