Zahid Sardar of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Design Spotting column writes about converting a failed dot-com space into an innovative live-work space near Potrero Hill.

Live-work lofts were too small for sculptor Agelio Batle to raise a family, but residential neighborhoods weren’t right for a substantial studio. After a long search, he found the perfect spot between two Potrero neighborhoods – the work space of a failed dot-com

The remodel includes interesting design, art, room for their staff of eight on the lower floor, living space upstairs, green building materials such as cork flooring, passive solar heating and water-based (non-toxic) paints.

Batles’ Potrero Hill home echoes the past
Design Spotting column