Blecher Building + Urban Design (BBUD) provides comprehensive architectural design and planning of inspiring, productive and sustainable buildings and spaces for homeowners, businesses, developers and institutions. BBUD’s experienced and professionally diverse staff shapes the aesthetic, social, technical, and economic goals of our clients into great projects that benefit our clients and the community throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We are best known for transforming physical and administrative challenges into opportunities by finding productively novel design solutions at all scales. Expertise BBUD serves a wide range of clients for new construction, complex addition and renovation projects. For our residential clients we design custom houses (urban homes, suburban homes and ultra-luxury dwellings), speculative residential developments, Accessory Dwelling Units (also known as “ADUs,” “in-law units,” and “backyard homes”) and both market rate and below market rate multi-family residential developments. For our commercial and institutional clients we design offices, national chain retail roll-outs and neighborhood retail stores including food service establishments. Project locations include Arizona, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas. Approach BBUD collaborates on a solutions-based design approach with clients, builders, consultants, community members and government officials. We recognize the commitments of space and time by both our clients and the surrounding community over the arc of design and construction for a lifetime of occupancy. Our deep respect for those commitments shape our designs and inform our outreach to stakeholders. Moreover, we holistically design sustainable buildings and sites with immediate wellness and energy efficiency benefits to occupants and owners as well as long-term environmental benefits to communities and regions.