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BNPD stands for Benjamin Nelson Pennell Design, a practice which began in 2017 with the commission of a small residence in Northern California. We provide ordinary architectural services for additions, remodels, ground-up construction, and feasibility studies. When the occasion calls for it, we involve ourselves in construction as well; physically making custom-built furniture, ornamental applique, fiberglass sculpture, and structural steelwork. Read More
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RESIDENTIAL
300 John Lemley Ln. 2025
1011 2nd st. (pt 2) 2021
Samson’s Lair 2021
1011 2nd st. (pt 1) 2020
1102 Masonic Ave 2019
210 Semple St. 2017
COMMERCIAL
5278 College Ave. 2020
681 27th St. 2020
4750 Park Blvd. 2020
547 31st St. 2019
Port Tonic 2019
MISCELLANEOUS
Shinto Shed 2020
Ex-Embryo 2014
LA Streetlights 2020
Dragon Temple 2019
Strip Tease 2019
Design Village 2011
Skyhouse 2010
Sweat Lodge 2009
THEORETICAL
Hell High 2019
London Spec Housing 2018
St Patrick’s Cathedral 2018
TEXTS / ARCHIVED WORK SAMPLES
WORK SAMPLE (CURRENT) 2025
“DRAWING ON ARCHITECTURE” 2019
WORK SAMPLE (ARCHIVE) 2017
LECTURES / VIDEOS
Slanted Commune 2024
Territorial Conquest 2023
Strip Tease 2015
Ex-Embryo 2014
WEB ARCHIVE 2024
22 300 JOHN LEMLEY LN.
300 John Lemley Ln is self-built unsold spec house (and so it is presently my house) constructed in a town near Blacksburg, VA. It is approximately 2,700 sf in area, 44’ in gross vertical height, and equipped with enough artistic and mechanical ...
2025
Jan-23
21 1011 2ND PT. 2
1011 2nd st. was a large, multi-phase residential renovation in Brookings, South Dakota. The main floors remained largely in keeping with the character of the original home; but the attic story, both on the interior and exterior possessed a more personal ...
2021
August 08
20 SAMSON’S LAIR
Samson’s lair is a small basement renovation, with a decorative fireplace serving as the main focus of the space. Who is Samson:
“In a bloody showdown, sublime in scale, Samson brought down the walls...”
2021
March-12
19 SHINTO SHED
The Shinto Shed was a very simple addition to a small weekend cabin located near Mt. Shasta in Northern California. The basic box is made of stained lumber, while the enormous roof truss...
2020
August-6
18 210 SEMPLE ST
210 Semple St. was my first architectural commission: A duplex in rural Modesto, CA. The budget had a hard limit of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the client, rather eccentrically, required a footprint of eight hundred and eighty eight...
2017
Jun-15
17 5278 COLLEGE AVE
The building on 5278 College Avenue (in Oakland, CA) was designed to retrofit an existing small office, and then infill the parking lot beside it. The program consisted of a cafe plus parking on the ground floor; two office suites on the second; and then five apartment units...
2020
May-08
16 1011 2ND PT. 1
1011 2nd st. was a large, multi-phase residential renovation in Brookings, South Dakota. The main floors remained largely in keeping with the character of the original home(pictured below); but the attic story, both on the interior and exterior possessed a more personal ...
2021
February-12
15 EX-EMBRYO
Ex-Embryon is an “Egg Chair” based on the original design by Arne Jacobsen of the same name. It addresses the otherwise subdued relationship between frame and skin, heightening the polarized tectonic of steel and fiberglass. In order to resolve this ...
2014
March-15
14 LA STREETLIGHTS
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2020
July-19
13 DRAGON TEMPLE
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2019
July-10
12 HELL HIGH
Slovenian Scientists in a maniacal rage invented a new pedagogical kind of institution in which the phrase “kind of” became an adequate substitute for logically coherent statements. Additionally, a highly controlled sub-species of its population, namely, architecture students, would have their brain-stems invasively rewired, at night, while they dreamt of saying the phrase “kind of” in a semi-fancy setting. Unbeknownst to these poor sots, who wilfully traded in the mind God gave them for a pre-packed and double condomned, vasalined version, they became, almost inevitably as it were, permanently transfixed to a highly secretive and indiscussible mainframe computer, delivering a slow serum antidote of pleasant and innoffensive architectural concepts; which...
2019
June-5
11 STRIP TEASE
Strip Tease was an immersive architectural instalation created by the Doug Jackson Thesis Class of 2015 at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It was a “total art work”, meaning it featured volumetric, sculptural form (ie architecture), rear-projected interactive digital content, and a backdrop of specially-engineered audio...
2015
May-25
10 LONDON HOUSING SPEC
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2018
December-06
09 ST PAT’S CATHEDRAL
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2018
May-08
08 1102 MASONIC AVE
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2019
October-5
07 681 27TH ST
681 is an alternative model for high-density housing. As a result of several CA measures passed to incentivize construction, investment, and density, a series of seperately-owned town home units (with sub-units nested within them) are clustered around...
2020
March-5
06 4750 PARK BLVD
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2020
January-10
05 547 31ST ST
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2019
September-21
04 PORT TONIC
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2013
July-07
03 DESIGN VILLAGE
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2011
April-10
02 SKYHOUSE
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2010
Jun-20
01 SWEAT LODGE
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2009
Jun-15