Bionic’s “Flying Colors” has been selected as a winning proposal in the 2025 Market Street Reimagined Competition hosted by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, ULI, and the Civic Joy Fund. The esteemed Jury including Jony Ive, Sir Norman Foster, Stanley Saitowitz, and Janette Sadik-Kahn selected 5 winners out of 170 entries from nine countries.

Downtown San Francisco is at a turning point. Flying Colors responds with a bold, luminous piece of civic infrastructure designed to transform perception and experience along Market Street celebrating the energy, culture, and creative spirit of San Francisco while signaling that recovery is not just underway, but alive and visible. The intervention stretches a luminous thread of programmable LED media mesh banners designed to animate the corridor with light, motion, and meaning from the Embarcadero to Civic Center.

We’re proud to be part of this collective effort to reimagine Market Street as a place of connection, creativity, and civic pride.

We are proud to share that Bionic has been recognized with three awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter! Force Field received an Honor Award for General Design, while Emery Yards and the Plus Plan earned Merit Awards for Urban Design.

We are grateful to our collaborators, clients, and project partners whose vision, expertise, and commitment helped make these projects possible.

These awards highlight our focus on designing inventive landscapes that integrate ecology, infrastructure, and public life in meaningful ways. Each recognized project responds to complex site challenges with innovative solutions that strengthen the public realm, connect people and places, and advance the role of landscape in shaping inclusive, enduring environments.

Portland State University has selected Bionic to participate in the next phase of the Place Matters Design Competition, which seeks innovative placemaking concepts for the PSU campus. The Bionic team includes Portland-based architecture firm Office 52, placemaking experts RSM Design, public art studio Futureforms, civil engineer Humber Design Group, and a group of local Portland advisors.

The two other teams advancing to the final stage of the competition are BIG + PLACE, a Danish design firm working in collaboration with a Portland-based landscape architecture firm; and Walker Macy Collaborative, a Portland-based landscape architect teaming with Henneberry Eddy Architects and other local organizations.

The teams will submit their final designs in May 2024.

The project breathes new life into Sunnyvale’s downtown core with streetscapes, plazas, shared streets, and a signature public park designed around a historic redwood grove.

The new 10-acre life science campus overlooks the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. The design provides a variety of outdoor amenity spaces set within a landscape of native chaparral plantings. With multiple acres built over structure, the project combines construction and horticultural technology to create a large-scale immersive landscape.

Chiron Plaza lies at the heart of Emery Yards, a new life sciences campus in downtown Emeryville.

The 13-acre park is centrally located at the confluence of the San Lorenzo River and Branciforte Creek in downtown Santa Cruz. Bionic will embark on an extensive public engagement process to help forge a new vision for this iconic public space.