Hidden behind the walls of the Vault, a chic fine dining spot opening today at 555 California St., is an actual door to a bygone bank vault.
Most notably, it will be one of the only openings in recent memory that isn’t taking over a previously occupied restaurant space. D-Scheme Studio is transforming space that was previously a bank vault, including repurposing old safety deposit boxes as part of the decor.
The 4,800-square-foot restaurant is being designed by San Francisco-based D-Scheme Studio. It’s also arguably one of the FiDi’s most significant projects in recent memory, at least in terms of scope.
ONE65 is a division of the Alexander’s Steakhouse group, which has been moving in on the long-vacant multistory space for at least a year. It’s heavily under construction inside, with D-Scheme Studio’s architect and president, Marc Dimalanta, planning its transformation into four businesses.
James Beard Award-winning chef Claude Le Tohic is at work on a massive, four restaurant, six-story monument to French cuisine in Union Square: ONE65 is an ambitious multi-story, multi-concept layer cake honoring the many elements of a single cuisine. D-Scheme Studio is behind the redesign of the original French Beaux Arts building.
Ambition isn’t something that’s in short supply these days at 165 O’Farrell St. in Union Square. The six-story brick building is in the throes of a multimillion dollar renovation effort. Once complete, its name will officially be ONE65, and the 25,000-square-foot interior will be home to ONE65 Patisserie, ONE65 Bistro, ONE65 Lounge & Bar and a fine dining restaurant called O’. Suffice to say, ONE65 might be San Francisco’s most ambitious hospitality project of 2018.
The Center Hardware warehouse building at the base of Potrero Hill, will be razed and a modern four-story building designed and newly refined by D-Scheme Studio, with 59 condos over 3,400 square feet of new Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) space and a basement garage for 44 cars, will rise up to 40 feet in height across the 249 Pennsylvania Avenue site.