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St Joseph’s Project Team
Owner/Client & Title
Chris Foley – Ground Matrix
Interior Designer/Owner
Ken Fulk – Ken Fulk Inc
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Stained Glass Restoration
John Joy – John Joy Art Glass Studio
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Custom Door Hardware
Beth Puno – van Cronenburg, inc.
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Mechanical Design Build
Leonard Rose – LMR Engineers
Contractor
Douglas Ross – Palisade Builders, Inc
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Code/Permitting
Tony Sanchez-Corea – ARS
Lead Engineer
Vahid Sattary – Sattary Structural and Earthquake Engineering
Historic Architect
Ruth Todd – Page & Turnbull
Lighting
Margit Yasukawa – EJA Lighting Design
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Steel Work
– Carlos Welding Inc
Specialty Sub-Contractor(s) Plasterwork
– WM O’Neill Lath And Plastering Corp
St. Joseph’s Church
The St. Joseph’s Church is the winner of a 2020 Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation. Award recipients are selected by a jury of top professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, planning, and history, as well as renowned architecture critics and journalists. The Award will be presented on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at an online awards ceremony. Tickets and sponsorship options are available at californiapreservation.org/awards.
About this project
Imagine a deteriorated 16,638 square foot church sitting vacant for almost three decades. Over the years, it suffered considerable damage from natural disasters, deferred maintenance, birds and vagrants. The building is once again open to the community – the owner hosts gatherings for cultural events, and New Markets tax credits provide jobs for local residents in this under-served part of SOMA
San Francisco interior designer Ken Fulk has re-imagined the interior space as the St. Joseph’s Arts Society for emerging artists.
