Street-level exterior architecture of Mallard Pointe residences in Belvedere, California
✦ ARCHITECTURE

A DISTINCTLY BELVEDERE EXPRESSION.

✦ ARCHITECTURE

one shoreline, a single sense of place.

The residences at Mallard Pointe were shaped by two of the Bay Area's most respected residential firms, each bringing decades of local knowledge to a single stretch of Belvedere Lagoon. The result is a collection that feels considered as a whole, yet distinct home to home.

Contemporary waterfront home exterior at Mallard Pointe, Belvedere, California, with board-formed concrete entry steps and native landscaping at sunset

✦ Sutton Suzuki Architects

Architecture shaped by place.

For more than three decades, Sutton Suzuki Architects has created distinctive residences throughout Marin and the Bay Area, known for thoughtful proportions, refined materiality and a strong connection between architecture and its setting.

Exterior material and roofline detail on a Mallard Pointe residence in Belvedere, California

✦ Hunt Hale Jones Architects

Thoughtful California residential design.

Hunt Hale Jones Architects brings decades of experience designing refined residences throughout California, with an approach grounded in proportion, natural light and an enduring sense of place.

Lagoon-front elevation of the Mallard Pointe homes reflected in still water in Belvedere, California

✦ DESIGN APPROACH

Twenty-three homes. Each one is designed for its precise position.

At Mallard Pointe, the architecture begins with the site. Each home's floor plan, proportions, and material expression are shaped by its specific position on the lagoon: the way morning light enters from the east, the views available from each level, the relationship between private outdoor space and the water's edge.

The material palette draws from the Belvedere vernacular, natural, tactile materials chosen to age gracefully in the marine environment. Roof lines step and shift to soften scale and create a quiet rhythm along the shoreline. The goal is simple: to welcome the lagoon into the homes.

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"It never started with a house. It started with a position on the water, and what belonged there."

Mallard Pointe

✦ MATERIALS

Materials chosen to age well, and to belong.

The exterior palette draws from the natural tones of the shoreline.

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✦ EXTERIOR MATERIAL PALETTE

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California-native planting and hardscape leading to a Mallard Pointe residence in Belvedere, California

✦ THE GUZZARDO PARTNERSHIP

Landscape that belongs.

Landscape architecture by The Guzzardo Partnership follows a clear philosophy: planting and hardscape that feels native to this specific shoreline. California-native species, naturalistic grading, and a seamless transition from private gardens to the lagoon's edge. The landscape completes the architecture.

EXPLORE THE RESIDENCES

✦ BUILT TO ENDURE

Designed for this shoreline, and for the long term.

A home on the water asks more of its architecture. Here, that means building for the realities of a waterfront site from the ground up, so that beauty and permanence are never a trade. What follows is not a list of upgrades. It is how these residences were conceived.

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LEED Gold

Every home targets LEED Gold certification.

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Seismically Upgraded

Structural systems upgraded for the site.

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Flood-Resilient

Construction designed for a waterfront site.

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Enduring

An architecture built to last, in every sense.