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For the first time since our founding, FENNIE+MEHL has a new principal. We are proud to announce the promotion of our own Jenna Ruth, a design maven with an entrepreneurial mind.

For the fourth year in a row, F+M has partnered with the kind of innovative thinkers that allow us to win International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Honor Awards.

Curbed lets us inside the once down-on-its-luck Victorian Doug and his wife purchased as newlyweds. Marrying patient restoration with a modern addition, he created his dream home.

F+M’s design for GitHub makes Architectural Digest’s Top 10 most innovative headquarters list. Certainly the reception room – an exact replica of The White House – made an impression.

Forbes magazine highlights our own lead designer Jenna Ruth as a true design style maker, asking her to share the favorite locations in San Francisco that are sources of constant inspiration.

Ned Fennie explains to the Wall Street Journal why a strict open floor plan is not a perfect solution for employee productivity, and highlights how F+M helped Silicon Valley Bank get it right.

F+M, known for mindfully designing spaces that attract and retain top-tier tech hires, was highlighted in a recent TechRepublic article explaining just how it’s done and why this is a smart business decision.

FENNIE+MEHL only hires highly creative self-starters and then incentivizes all employees with a unique compensation model. They also push clients to see their own culture as a critical value proposition.

For the third year in a row F+M has been recognized by the IIDAHonor Awards. This year we are twice blessed receiving both the Give Award (for improving a physical spaces’s impact on society) and the People’s Choice Award.

Fennie + Mehl Architects have always acted in an environmental sustainable manner. Since 2002, we have implemented working 80 hours every 9 days thereby eliminating over 160 round trip commutes a year for our staff. As a

FENNIE+MEHL Architects designed Microsoft’s offices in San Francisco to help the company market the launch Windows 8 and Windows Phone.

For the new products to be successful, Microsoft had to pitch in and help its

The Box Headquarters Relocation was a design build tenant improvement to an existing 97,000 SF, 3-story office building for new headquarter space. The project scope included open office space, private offices, conference and

Walking into the offices of GitHub is like stepping into an alternate reality; one where work closely resembles play and creativity is valued as highly as productivity. Untraditional is an understatement when it comes to the

FENNIE+MEHL Architects have designed the offices of Silicon Valley Bank located in San Francisco, California. Silicon Valley Bank, a unique global commercial bank focusing on investments in emerging technology

At the core of GitHub technology is social collaboration, which we find not only physically evident in their new office space itself but also manifested throughout the design process, a seamless collaboration between

The partners of San Francisco’s Jackson Square Aviation loved their neighborhood and their building, a two-story brick and timber beauty dating from the mid-nineteenth century. But after being purchased by a Japanese

As is tradition, Office Snapshots complies a list every year of the Top Most Popular Offices (past years: 2014, 2013, 2012). This year, we are proud to have been included as #5 in their Top 25 Offices of 2015.

When municipal bond law firm Jones Hall began thinking about how to update its new San Francisco office space, designers from Fennie+Mehl Architects showed the company some technology firms’ office features. “While they knew