726 Main Street: Hayes Group Architects' adaptive reuse, commercial interiors project received a 2024 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects San Mateo Chapter.

726 Main Street: Situated in an 1859 landmark building in the heart of downtown Redwood City, this office for a prominent commercial developer serves as a place for operating his business—focused on projects in the community—and for hosting events which bring together industry professionals for sharing ideas, making deals and meeting others.

726 Main Street: The space is flexible so that catered events can be easily staged from the open kitchen area to the adjacent open space.

726 Main Street: Natural lighting was important, so the existing windows and skylights flood the lounge and open areas with daylight, and the internal offices borrow the light through their floor to ceiling glass walls. During the day artificial lights are optional.

726 Main Street: Massive brick walls were left exposed, revealing centuries of patina of past use as a hardware store, a bank and a laundry. The existing redwood ceiling was repaired and refinished, and the floor was replaced with polished concrete.

726 Main Street: The plan is divided in two along the length of the building by a steel and leather-wrapped casework wall. Frameless glass permits light to pass freely between the acoustically private offices and conference room occupying one half and the lounge-like open space occupying the other.

726 Main Street: Hayes Group Architects programmed the interior spaces for a variety of activities, including collaboration and events.

726 Main Street: This lounge-like open space showcases the modern aesthetic and discretely luxurious vibe for which Hayes Group Architects is sought after by real estate developers and technology companies, as well as venture capital and law firms.

726 Main Street: Standing millwork storage modules subdivide the open area into discrete programmatic zones for coworking, entertaining and taking breaks.

726 Main Street. The project team includes Stormland Group (client); Hayes Group Architects; Cody Vermette Group (contractor); Morris Shaffer Engineering, LLP (structural); Bayside Mechanical, Inc.; TNT Plumbing Co.; and Keene Electric, Inc.

2515 El Camino: Hayes Group Architects' ground-up development in Palo Alto received a 2024 Citation Award from the American Institute of Architects San Mateo Chapter. The project is one more piece of the puzzle in shifting from low density to smart density in the City of Palo Alto.

2515 El Camino: This project transformed an old-world automobile-oriented suburban retail island into a mixed-use walkable center, increasing housing supply, while reducing car dependency, and bringing new round-the-clock vitality to a previously quiet site on a main thoroughfare.

2515 El Camino: The program brings 13 residential condominium units (including two units dedicated to the City of Palo Alto's affordable housing program), 6,000 square feet of office space, and an additional 13,675 square feet of retail space to a site previously occupied by a single restaurant surrounded by a sea of surface parking.

2515 El Camino: The majority of parking is now located below-grade allowing the entire street frontage along El Camino Real to be lined with retail space, activating the ground floor. Residential units on the upper 2 stories add 'eyes on the street' while maintaining privacy.

2515 El Camino: A new public outdoor courtyard is provided on the side street oriented towards the nearby commercial center, California Avenue, inviting residents, patrons and passers-by to linger. Access for commercial and residential areas are separated by unique entry points and separate elevators to reinforce privacy and security.

2515 El Camino: Sustainability strategies include creating a mixed-used development in a walkable community, as well as: increasing renewable energy use through solar panels; maximizing daylight use through shallow commercial floor-plates and residential unit depths, skylights above the interior residential corridor, and extensive exterior glazing; reducing energy consumption through high-performance VRF HVAC systems and high performance facades; and improving indoor air quality through MERV-13 filers in HVAC systems.

2515 El Camino: Facades at the retail corner sit back beneath the floor above, drawing out the connection between inside and out, creating a generous threshold that can be used for seating and protection from the elements.

2515 El Camino: Exterior two-story frames clad in Equitone Tectiva fiber cement panels with a brushed surface texture express each residential unit, while providing privacy for the exterior terraces, and sun shading for exterior glazing.

2515 El Camino: The project team includes Huafa Industrial (client); Hayes Group Architects; Nibbi Brothers General Contractors; Nishkian Menninger (structural); BKF Engineers (civil); The Guzzardo Partnership (landscape); ACIES Engineering (MEPF).