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May 20, 2021

San Francisco Business Times

Building a new path for women in real estate and construction

“As a woman business owner, I want to build in that flexibility so that women can continue on in their careers after having children and still continue to have that work-life balance,” Quezada said, “because I feel like the more licensed architects we have that are women, the better.”

Los Angeles Business Times

Woman-owned Quezada Architecture Opens Los Angeles Office Amid Pandemic

Quezada Architecture (QA), a woman- and minority-owned architectural firm based in San Francisco, is pleased to announce the opening of a second office location this week, adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. The architecture firm’s new location enables accelerated momentum to support a growing roster of clients.

Ness Magazine

UGG Flagship Store by Florencia Pita & Co + Quezada Architecture

The store’s warmth, flexibility, and future-forward attention to craft summon the brand’s newly expansive direction.

Frame

UGG IS USING ITS FIFTH AVENUE FLAGSHIP TO POSITION ITSELF AS A LIFESTYLE BRAND

By emphasizing craftsmanship through the use of custom materials and bespoke furniture, Florencia Pita & Co and Quezada Architecture successfully established a spatial language for Ugg that indeed may prove more appealing to a wider audience.

San Francisco Chronicle

Take a tour through S.F.'s new, $77 million animal shelter, complete with a dog toilet

The new shelter, six years in the planning, includes roomier cages, a modern veterinary suite and a comfy lounge for off-duty animal control officers... No detail was overlooked.

Office of the Mayor of San Francisco

San Francisco Opens New Animal Shelter

“The imaginative and thoughtful reuse of this historic building has been an exciting project for our team to partner on,” said Acting San Francisco Public Works Director Alaric Degrafinried. “We were able to preserve an important part of the City’s past and deliver a safe, modern and user-friendly facility that will serve the needs of San Francisco for years to come.”

Awards

California Preservation Society
Rehabilitation Category Award 2024
Amy's Kitchen

AIA California Council
Merit Award 2024
Uber Headquarters

AIA San Francisco
Design Honor Award 2023
Uber Headquarters

IIDA Northern California Chapter
Craft Award 2023
Affiliated Engineers, Inc. SF Office

Chicago Athenaeum
American Architecture Awards 2023
Uber Headquarters

AIA New York
Design Honor Award 2023
Uber Headquarters

American Public Works Association (APWA)
2022 Public Works Projects of the Year
San Francisco Animal Care & Control Facility

AIA San Francisco Design Award
Historic Preservation 2022
San Francisco Animal Care & Control Facility

California Preservation Foundation
Preservation Design Award 2022
San Francisco Animal Care & Control Facility

San Francisco Business Times
10 Coolest Office Designs 2018
New Relic Headquarters

AIA San Francisco
Interior Architecture Design Award
Live Nation / Bill Graham Presents

AIA San Francisco
Special Achievement Design Award
AIASF Headquarters

AIA California Council Design Merit Award
Industrial Light & Magic

Publications

Forbes

Architectural Record

Architect Magazine

Interior Design

San Francisco Business Times

Luxe

Marin Living Magazine

Tech Crunch

The San Francisco Chronicle

City by Design

Signature Homes

Homes of the 21st Century

California Home & Design

Dream Homes of Northern California

Arc CA

A&D Small Firms, Great Projects

SF MOMA Design Series 4, Xefirotarch

Offices of the Digital Age

Dwell

Newsweek

Wired Magazine

ArchTech

Fast Company

Cover of Architectural Record Magazine 05/2022