As contemporary architects, we can sometimes see the good ideas even within bad buildings.  This project re-imagines one of the 1960s apartment blocks found throughout Oakland.  The building was weathered and suffered from some poor decisions over the years, but under it all we saw an architectural logic that was not that far off what we would try to achieve today.  With select changes, we sought to bring that logic forward and to upgrade the feel of the façade, lobby, stairwell and corridors.