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Architect, Oakland License C28018

Arcsine

The city has issued 20 of the 30 San Francisco building permits that name Arcsine since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by restaurants and bars. Their median plan-review permit, across all project types, took 6.4 months from filing to issue. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Japantown and Lakeshore.

Also filed as
designer, engineer
Issued by the city
20 of 30 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, all types
6.4 mo filing to issue
Rank for restaurants and bars
No. 49 of 200 by restaurants and bars issued
Overall rank
No. 350 of 1,543 architects and designers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Arcsine on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 9 restaurants and bars, 8 apartments and multifamily, 6 retail and shops.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

30% residential
70% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Restaurants and bars Commercial 5 of 9 issued 30% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 8 of 8 issued 27% of filings.
  3. Retail and shops Commercial 2 of 6 issued 20% of filings.
  4. Offices Commercial 1 of 3 issued 10% of filings.
  5. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 3 of 3 issued 10% of filings.
  6. Home remodels Residential 1 of 1 issued 3% of filings.

Permits over time

Permits filed each year, drawn as a street with one building per year, and how many of all their permits the city has issued.

Busiest year
2022
6 permits filed
Latest filing
Aug 2026
67% of 30 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 0, 2019: 3, 2020: 4, 2021: 3, 2022: 6, 2023: 3, 2024: 6, 2025: 3, 2026: 2. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 1 permit; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 20 of 30 permits filed

67%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

10 not issued as of October 20, 2026. Source: SF Department of Building Inspection permits via DataSF.

How fast their permits come through

Filing to issue for permits that went through plan review. Arcsine has 6 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for restaurants and bars, their most filed type, where 260 of 3,793 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.

Arcsine, all project types

6.4months

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Arcsine, all project types: 6.4 months. San Francisco, restaurants and bars: 7.4 months. Middle half of city permits: 3.7 to 12.5 months.
0 other architects and designers ranked for restaurants and bars have a median for it; Arcsine has fewer than 3 issued plan-review permits for restaurants and bars with usable dates Each circle is a firm's median for its plan-review permits for restaurants and bars. Dashed line: the median of all San Francisco plan-review permits for restaurants and bars, 7.4 months. Shaded: the middle half of those permits, 3.7 to 12.5 months.
0 3 6 9 12 15 months 0 3 6 9 12 15 months

Where they rank

Ranked by permits the city has issued since 2018, first across every project type, then for restaurants and bars alone.

  1. 348 Jeffrey Rome & Associates Inc. 21
  2. 349 M Mosher Assoc 21
  3. 350 Arcsine 20
  4. 351 Lun Chan Associates 20
  5. 352 Mavrik Studio 20

All permits issued, 1,543 architects and designers Full ranking

  1. 47 Amz Engineering Inc 5
  2. 48 Steve Walker Studio Inc 5
  3. 49 Arcsine 5
  4. 50 Zero Ten Design 5
  5. 51 Guerrero Design 5

Restaurants and bars issued, 200 architects and designers Restaurants and bars ranking

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Arcsine files the most permits, and how many architects and designers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.

  1. 01 Financial District/South Beach 386 architects and designers count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
  2. 02 Japantown 32 architects and designers count Japantown among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 Lakeshore 38 architects and designers count Lakeshore among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Mission 381 architects and designers count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods

Questions for the first call

  1. Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
  2. How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
  3. Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?

Other architects and designers for restaurants and bars

Firms ranked near Arcsine by permits issued for restaurants and bars.

  1. 44 Maccracken Architects 5 restaurants and bars issued
  2. 45 Harvey Hacker Architects 5 restaurants and bars issued
  3. 47 Amz Engineering Inc 5 restaurants and bars issued
  4. 50 Zero Ten Design 5 restaurants and bars issued
  5. 53 Lineoffice Arch. 5 restaurants and bars issued
  6. 55 David Seidel Aia 5 restaurants and bars issued

See all 200 architects and designers ranked for restaurants and bars

Sheet
A-350 No. 350 of 1,543
Drawing
Permit record, Arcsine
Architect, Oakland
License
C28018 check with CAB
Data as of
Oct 2026
Scale
Not to scale

Built only from public San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records (permits, permit contacts), updated 2026-10-20. It is not a review or an endorsement, and Arcsine has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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