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Interactive Resources, Inc. Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Interactive Resources, Inc. Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Interactive Resources, Inc. celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in September of 1973, Interactive Resources is one of the oldest architectural firms in the Bay Area, providing comprehensive architectural services to a wide range of private and public sector clients.

The firm’s portfolio includes federal, state and municipal facilities, energy-efficient public schools, sustainable commercial buildings and cannabis facilities, historic preservation projects, and the revitalization of public spaces. “Interactive Resources” refers to the multiple disciplines that the firm brings together for a holistic approach that considers factors such as energy conservation and renewable energy integration, including solar photovoltaic array design, water conservation, and use of locally sourced materials to create environmentally responsible and resilient spaces.

Interactive Resources, Inc. Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Interactive Resources, Inc. celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in September of 1973, Interactive Resources is one of the oldest architectural firms in the Bay Area, providing comprehensive architectural services to a wide range of private and public sector clients.

The firm’s portfolio includes federal, state and municipal facilities, energy-efficient public schools, sustainable commercial buildings and cannabis facilities, historic preservation projects, and the revitalization of public spaces. “Interactive Resources” refers to the multiple disciplines that the firm brings together for a holistic approach that considers factors such as energy conservation and renewable energy integration, including solar photovoltaic array design, water conservation, and use of locally sourced materials to create environmentally responsible and resilient spaces.

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Expansive New High Tech Cannabis Grow Facilities as a Trend

Expansive New High Tech Cannabis Grow Facilities as a Trend

We’ve been designing cannabis facilities with ever increasing size. The pace was already picking up in 2017, and with the start of 2018, it launched into high gear. Among several cannabis projects, I’ve been working on a brand new 123,000 sf facility that I planned...

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Welcome Back, Jamie Brown!

We are thoroughly enjoying the temporary return to Interactive Resources of Jamie Brown, who left two years ago to fulfill an adventure/dream of teaching English in Japan. Jamie is a California licensed architect, a black belt in Kung Fu, and an accomplished musician,...

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Cannabis Facility Design

Cannabis Facility Design

Interactive Resources was an early entrant into and is a leading provider of architectural and engineering services for the cannabis industry. Our firm’s specialization in this sector has deepened with the legalization of recreational marijuana in California, and we...

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When Arts Education and Architecture Intersect

When Arts Education and Architecture Intersect

It is especially rewarding when a project leads to a lasting collaboration. In 2014, Interactive Resources provided schematic design, planning, design development and entitlements for a historic home project at 656 Quinan Street in Pinole, which involved raising an...

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Holiday Giving

Holiday Giving

Annual gift giving to those in need has been a company holiday tradition for many years at Interactive Resources. For the second year in recent history, we have worked with schools impacted by Northern California wildfires. This year, we donated art supplies to the...

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Alten Construction Office Remodel

Alten Construction Office Remodel

Alten Construction recently moved into its newly renovated headquarters within the Kaiser Shipyards Historic District of Richmond's Marina Bay neighborhood. Interactive Resources was the architect and structural engineer of record for the project, overseeing design,...

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Play Ball! at Fitzgerald Field

Play Ball! at Fitzgerald Field

Our firm has the pleasure of working on a wide range of project types: schools, pharmaceutical, industrial, judge’s chambers, forensic work, historic preservation, major solar engineering, commercial, and large mixed-use.  So it wasn’t out of our ballpark to be...

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