Glenn Rescalvo FAIA

Partner

Glenn Rescalvo FAIA is a Partner at Handel Architects and oversees a significant portion of the firm’s work from the San Francisco office. His work includes notable projects in cities around the world.

Current work includes a variety of multifamily residential buildings in the San Francisco Bay area, including 950 Tennessee, 2465 Van Ness, 2301 Lombard, 1554 Market Street, 950 Gough, 1001 Van Ness Senior Living, 950 Market Street (which includes a boutique hotel), and the Four Seasons Private Residences 706 Mission, all of which are in San Francisco. In Oakland, Mr. Rescalvo's work includes multifamily residential projects at 2270 Broadway and 1750 Broadway. Mr. Rescalvo is also leading the design for a new mixed-use complex at Angels Landing in Downtown Los Angeles. In Austin, Mr. Rescalvo’s Proper Hotel and Residences tower is currently completing construction.

Recently completed work includes 288 Pacific, a 33-unit condominium development for Grosvenor; The Pacific, an adaptive reuse project in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco which set sales a price record in the city; and Ten Thousand, a new luxury rental tower in Los Angeles. Previous work includes the W Hotel in Santiago, a 31-story mixed-use complex in Santiago, Chile and the Rosewood Abu Dhabi, a 1.1 million sq. ft. luxury, hotel and residential development on the coast in Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

Prior to opening the San Francisco office in 1994, Mr. Rescalvo was a Senior Designer at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, P.C. While at KPF Mr. Rescalvo collaborated on a number of office building projects including the Chalpultepec Tower in Mexico City, the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu, the Hanseatic Trade Center in Hamburg, the State House in London, the Station Building in Nagoya, and the Telecom Competition in Buenos Aires.

Mr. Rescalvo's projects have received recognition both locally and abroad and have been published in Urban Land, Architecture, Architecture + Urbanism, Oculus, Architectural Record, Interni Magazine, and Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century.

Mr. Rescalvo holds his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master of Architecture from Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the Residential Builders Association, the San Francisco Chapter of the Site Planning and Urban Research Foundation, and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB).