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AwardsPreservation Design Awards This highly competitive awards program honors exceptional historic preservation projects in California for excellence in design, construction, planning and technology. Awards are given in nine categories. Rehabilitation-Large Category Cavallo Point - the Lodge at Golden Gate, Sausalito - Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and Architectural Resources Group This category recognizes projects that make possible the continued historic use, or a compatible new use, through repair, alterations and additions, while preserving those portions or features which convey a site or structure’s historical, cultural or architectural values. Sustainability Category Cavallo Point - the Lodge at Golden Gate, Sausalito - Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and Architectural Resources Group This category recognizes projects that successfully and compatibly apply innovative technologies, sustainable design and / or practices to historic structures or sites, which promote environmental design, material and energy conservation, and an improved quality of life.
31 Places to Go This Summer SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Cavallo Point, a retreat center devoted to environmental health and sustainability, is opening on the grounds of the century-old Fort Baker, in Marin County across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. The latest step in the Bay Area's slow-food obsession, the complex officially opens June 14, with rotating guest chefs, a spa, adventure programs and an eagerly awaited restaurant. Units in the historic section, set in former lieutenants' and generals' quarters, start at $350 for a room with a view and $250 for one without a view (888-651-2003; www.cavallopoint.com).
Best of the Day 2008 BEST HOME AWAY FROM HOME Less than a mile north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Fort Baker lies the 45-acre oasis now known as Cavallo Point: The Lodge at Golden Gate. With its easy access to points both north and south, Cavallo is the newest, quickest way to escape the city. Starting on June 1, you can hole up in one of the 142 rooms—some were carved out of former officers’ residences (now historic landmarks), while others are brand spanking new (and environmentally correct) construction, with gas fireplaces, private decks and patios, radiant-heat floors and sweeping views of the Bay. Between the healing-arts center and spa, expansive event space, a restaurant run by award-winning chef Joseph Humphrey (lured down from Meadowood) and a slew of activities ranging from active to spiritual, you may never come home. Oh, wait, you are home—almost. 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito, 888-651-2003
Top 10 National Park Lodges CAVALLO POINT This national park is not one piece of land but a composite of sites in the Bay Area, including spots in San Francisco. In the 1990s, the park acquired Fort Baker, a historic army outpost a mile from Sausalito in Marin County, and recently transformed it into Cavallo Point, the Lodge at Golden Gate. Opening this summer, accommodations in both the new and restored buildings are hardly barrack like-the park wisely partnered with the folks behind Post Ranch Inn at Big Sur, and the results are stunning. On top of spa services and yoga, guests can take photography classes, train for a triathlon, or channel their inner Alice Waters through a culinary program that includes olive oil tastings and day trips to wineries in the Napa and Sonoma valleys. From $225/night; cavallopoint.com
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