September 2024
The Picklweed Library is featured in the Marin Independent Journal.
September 2024
The Boulder Creek Library is honored with a 2024 AIA California Citation Award. The awards jury commended the project as a “beautiful transformation of an existing library building into a space with strong community input. Simple and uncluttered. The architects appeared to have done a number of projects of this scale: all sensitive, beautiful projects with creative reuse of exposing buildings. Commendable”
Progress on the Santa Cruz Downtown Library is featured in Lookout Santa Cruz.
May 2024
The Boulder Creek Library is honored with a 2023 AIA Monterey Bay Merit Award. The awards jury commended the project as a “skillful remodel with a restrained palette” and noted that the “playful children’s reading area especially stood out.”
December 2023
The La Selva Beach Library is honored with the 2023 AIA San Francisco Design Award: Citation Award for Architecture.
May 2023
Principal Abe Jayson interviewed by Lookout Santa Cruz reporter Wallace Baine. The article discusses the community of Santa Cruz’s plans for a new library, the future of libraries in general, and the role libraries play in our culture and society.
October 2022
The La Selva Beach Library is honored with the 2022 AIA California Design Award: Special Commendation, Design for Change. The awards jury described the project as “a solid sustainable transformation effort to renovate rather than replace – this project revealed the potential that was there in an incredible way.”
October 2022
The Live Oak Library hosts a grand opening.
October 2022
The Boulder Creek Library is featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
June 2022
The Garfield Park Library hosts the community of Santa Cruz for a Grand Opening.
June 2022
The Garfield Park Library grand opening is previewed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
June 2022
The Boulder Creek Library hosted a grand opening celebration attended by Supervisor Bruce McPherson, members of the community, and library staff. Activities included speeches, live, music, and food & drink.
May 2022
The Santa Cruz Mixed Use Library conceptual design was featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
December 2021
The Santa Cruz Mixed Use Library conceptual design was featured in the Santa Cruz Local.
December 2021
The Santa Cruz Mixed Use Library conceptual design was featured in Lookout Santa Cruz.
December 2021
November 2021
Jayson Architecture’s role in the re-envisioning of multiple branches for the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is featured in Lookout Santa Cruz.
Jayson Architecture’s role as Library Master Architect for the Santa Cruz Downtown Mixed Use Library is featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
September 2021
Jayson Architecture is selected as Master Architect for the Santa Cruz Downtown Mixed Use Library.
September 2021
July 2021
Principal Abraham Jayson leads a hard hat tour of the in-construction Branciforte Library for State Senator Jimmy Panetta.
April 2021
Jayson Architecture provides pro-bono services for the family of Vicha Ratanapakdee, victim of an anti-Asian hate crime, to facilitate the permitting of a mural in his memory in San Francisco Chinatown.
The La Selva Beach Library is featured on the front page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
April 2021
April 2021
Principal Abraham Jayson gives presentation to the San Francisco Art Institute’s City Studio youth program on public engagement in community architecture.
The La Selva Beach Library hosts a digital grand opening, with speeches & a digital tour. You can explore the library in 3D here.
March 2021
Principal Abraham Jayson and Associate Katie Stuart give presentation on “Trends in Contemporary Libraries” at the annual staff retreat for the Santa Cruz Public Libraries system.
October 2019
July 2019
Principal Abraham Jayson is a panelist for the AIA East Bay Event “Ownership [Transition] in the Entrepreneurial Era of Gen X”