As part of this year's Architecture and the City Festival, Inhabitat had the chance to tour the award-winning San Francisco restaurant Bar Agricole, which opened almost exactly one year ago. The LEED Gold certified renovated space — originally a brewery and more recently a plumbing warehouse — is warm, palpable and inspiring. A wooden wall made from recycled whiskey casks stands opposite an exposed concrete wall, which has left intact the low holes designed to pass kegs to the street. The front bar features wood recycled from razed Midwestern barns. Add in abundant natural light and you've got a place people like to sit in.
