Founded in 1988, BDE Architecture brings three decades of multi-family residential design expertise to its downtown San Diego office on West Market Street. The firm's portfolio of transit-oriented, mixed-use developments places it alongside large-scale design practices such as Gensler in shaping the density and streetscape of San Diego's urban core. BDE's Flora & Fauna project in Bankers Hill comprises two buildings totaling 186 dwelling units, navigating California's Senate Bill 35 streamlined approval process for developments that designate a percentage of below-market-rate units. The practice maintains additional studios in San Francisco and Chicago, applying a team-based approach that integrates architect, client, consultants, and contractor from schematic design through construction administration. General contractors such as Harper Construction execute the structural buildouts that translate BDE's curtain-wall and fiber-cement-panel facades into finished residential towers. The most complex commissions involve undulating exterior envelope systems with variable-height curtain-wall bays requiring custom mullion engineering and seismic-zone structural coordination.