Cass Calder Smith A+I

Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors is an interdisciplinary, bi-coastal practice with offices in Francisco and New York City. Celebrating 30 years in business, the firm practices boldness balanced with simplicity, innovation balanced with functionality, and power balanced with precision. The studio’s award-winning, modern designs have an attention to detail, materiality, and authenticity that exhibit an artfulness uniquely tailored to the client.
Cass Calder Smith may call New York and San Francisco its home bases, but the reach of this interdisciplinary firm extends far beyond thanks to the expertise of its principals and more than three decades in the business.

The Hotel Castro. San Francisco, CA

The Hotel Castro was conceived to feel like part of its residential neighborhood fabric by virtue of its modest size and business model. With only 12 tightly spaced, yet efficiently furnished, micro-units, the hotel serves a decidedly limited number of guests. Cass Calder Smith partnered with interior design consultant Jon De La Cruz to ensure each room would be a unique experience for guests, with custom interior furnishings and wall coverings, and balconies facing the streetscape or the lushly landscaped inner block yards. The ground floor is occupied by a small tavern-restaurant with sidewalk tables and storefront doors that open wide to the street. The roof terrace provides a relief from the street, where small gatherings are framed by sunsets, city lights and skylines and filled with the sights, sounds and smells of the surrounding Castro neighborhood.

Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors is an interdisciplinary, bi-coastal practice with offices in Francisco and New York City. Celebrating 30 years in business, the firm practices boldness balanced with simplicity, innovation balanced with functionality, and power balanced with precision. The studio’s award-winning, modern designs have an attention to detail, materiality, and authenticity that exhibit an artfulness uniquely tailored to the client.