BCV Architecture + Interiors designed three distinct retail environments for the California Academy of Sciences, including the interactive Lab Junior Store, history-inspired Swamp Store, and a natural extension of the museum.

BCV Architecture + Interiors is an award-winning architecture, interiors and planning firm with offices in San Francisco and New York. BCV has international experience in creating exquisitely detailed environments and sustainable communities. Founded in 1997, we have become known for the diversity of our work, including private residences, wineries, market and food halls, restaurants, specialty food shops, retail stores, mixed-use developments and shopping centers. We believe in seamlessly integrating architecture and interiors. As our projects frequently involve design from master planning down to the detailed design of furnishings and accessories, we have extensive experience and passion for design in its variety of form and scale. Whatever the design problem, the challenge that inspires us is to create sensitive, simple, elegant solutions, respecting context and, most importantly, responding to our clients'​ needs. Whether the project aesthetic tends toward the traditional or contemporary, we believe in sound fundamental principles of design, finding inspiration and beauty, not in overly self-conscious gestures, but rather in the restraint of paying attention to context, scale, proportion, quality of materials and execution of details.