Larkin Street | On the Boards

Larkin Street is one of FORMA’s newest active projects, and it defies easy categorization. Marmol Radziner designed the renovation; Ingrao Design is leading interiors. Together, the team is executing something more nuanced than a standard gut remodel—selective demolition paired with deliberate preservation. Some spaces have been opened up entirely. Others are being updated with a lighter touch. Finished rooms sit alongside stripped-back areas still in progress. The house is being renovated in pieces, and that’s by design.

The site compounds the challenge. The property commands expansive views over the Bay, but the lot is constrained and steeply sloped. FORMA is managing work across multiple zones at once, rear-yard landscape and hardscape, selective framing, and complex logistics through a partially intact home. Sequencing is everything here.

One detail captures the project’s ingenuity well: excavated material exits through the rear lot, not the front of the house. It’s the kind of solution that never makes it into finished photography, but it keeps the site moving without disrupting the work inside.

Larkin Street is early in the process. The approach, however, is already defined, precise, considered, and built around a site that demands nothing less.