Main Street Village Apartments in Fremont is JSWD's second project with Allied Housing. The site is located in the Irvington district, adjacent to a future BART station. The project includes 60-65 housing units, commercial space and underground parking garage. Groundbreaking is scheduled for spring of 2009.

The office is currently working on two new projects for the San Francisco Zen Center: new staff housing at Green Gulch Farm in Marin, and a workshop/yoga room for the Retreat Center at Tassajara (in collaboration with Stadler Architecture). The workshop is scheduled to be completed by May 2009; construction for the new housing complex is scheduled for spring 2009.

Partner Max Jacobson wrote the Introduction to the newly published book "Building Light in the Pacific Northwest - The Houses of Thomas L. Bosworth, Architect," by Erika Rosenfeld, with a foreword by Peter Bohlin. (Oro Press, 2007)

Davis Life Magazine featured the Bruner residence in a 2007 publication, dubbing it "a sanctuary inside and out." This 3,000 square foot custom home was completed by JSW/D in the summer of 2006. Click here for more information and photos of the residence.

Earning a LEED® Silver certification, the Early Childhood Education Center was completed in December of 2006. It was awarded "Best Integrated Design Process" from the Higher Education Energy Efficiency Partnership, Best Practices in Sustainable Design Competition. Architect and Partner Barbara Winslow presented the project at the UC/CSU Sustainability Conference in June of 2006.

Click here to read about the Early Childhood Education Center in Issue 4 of Architecture 2030's E-News, or here to read about the Early Childhood Education Center in the 2006 edition of Best Practices Case Studies.

Renovations move forward on the Quaker Meeting Hall in Berkeley: The Meeting has hosted community workshops to present the project to the neighborhood, and we are now in the process of obtaining city permits.

Patterns of Home, the book authored by three of the partners (Max, Murray and Barbara) is now in paperback, available from Taunton Press. To date, the hardcover edition, published in 2002, has total sales of over 60,000. The book has been reviewed and excerpted in numerous newspapers and journals.

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