SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed

[colemonkee]

Gorgeous.

[Pedestrian]

Mark Benioff appeared on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV show today and Jim asked him if his iconic tower in SF was going to stay empty with everybody working at home. Benioff said, in effect, “No,” and that he was working on bringing people back into the office “safely”. I’m hoping what’s true for Salesforce is true for a lot of companies. For one thing, especially for people who live in the city and don’t have a long grinding commute, I would think working at home and not having the interaction with fellow employees or just getting out of the house would have gotten old by now. I’ve also read conflicting reports about the productivity of working at home vs in the office and also at least last summer some companies were reducing pay of people not coming into the office.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by craigs

Was this a long exposure, or were there really no cars on the offramp?

If that’s the ramp to the Transbay Terminal (“Salesforce Park”) they don’t allow cars on it I don’t believe, only busses and right now bus service could well be reduced so much the ramp might be empty quite often.

[tall/awkward]

Whoa, that almost looks like a Kinkade painting.

[craigs]

Originally Posted by tall/awkward

Whoa, that almost looks like a Kinkade painting.

Haha, naw--the "Painter of Light" usually has three different Suns going at one time.

[timbad]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

If that’s the ramp to the Transbay Terminal (“Salesforce Park”) they don’t allow cars on it I don’t believe, only busses and right now bus service could well be reduced so much the ramp might be empty quite often.

I think it's actually both: on the right in the pic is the bus ramp; on the left is the off-ramp that (out of the pic) separates and curves around to dump the cars onto I forget which street that is (Fremont?), behind the Avery. so it does seem curious that the left one is empty, unless it was 3:00a or something

[gillynova]

Originally Posted by craigs

Was this a long exposure, or were there really no cars on the offramp?

Night mode from an iPhone. Probably a 2 second exposed shot taken at midnight if anything. Surprisingly there were no cars

[Jerry of San Fran]

361 Turk Street - 02/26/2021 - steel is now visible from my apartment. (the architectural drawing was plucked from Socket Site)
361 Turk Street - San Francisco

[AndrewCNelson]

Heya,
Got a couple new stories we published this morning on SFYIMBY. New planning applications have been filed for the Freedom West development rising as high as 345 feet, a rendering has been discovered for a 240-foot Foster + Partners design in the Potrero Power Station development, which I found because of planning application activity for blocks 7 and 8 in the Potrero Power Station. I cant find dedicated threads to these projects.


I'm amazed with how much money must be thrown into the Potrero Power Station project, between hiring Foster for Block 7A+8, Herzog + De Meuron for Station A, and who knows who else at this point. I'm asking myself if this will be San Francisco's equivalent of Battersea Station or Hudson Yards? And how will it work in context beside Pier 70?

[38 Geary]

Another nice recent shot of the skyline:



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/luzfgu/view_from_twin_peaks/

[timbad]

Originally Posted by AndrewCNelson

... a rendering has been discovered for a 240-foot Foster + Partners design in the Potrero Power Station development, ... I cant find dedicated threads to these projects.

maybe it's time the power station project gets its own thread. really like that initial rendering for 7A, and am certainly looking forward to getting that whole stretch of the city (Mission Rock through Bayfront Park at Chase Center through Crane Cove Park through Pier 70 through this, phew) opened up to the waterfront!

[timbad]

Originally Posted by AndrewCNelson

... New planning applications have been filed for the Freedom West development rising as high as 345 feet...

I am reluctant to say this, but that actually looks too tall for the area. I do hope a bunch of new housing goes in there roughly à la this plan, but maybe just not quite so overwhelmingly. (I have a suspicion Planning will also think so.) anyone who lives closer to this have any strong feelings about the massing?

PS, also really like the Octavia Green idea echoing Patricia's Green, and leading to the newly-renovated recreation area to the north.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by timbad

I am reluctant to say this, but that actually looks too tall for the area. I do hope a bunch of new housing goes in there roughly à la this plan, but maybe just not quite so overwhelmingly. (I have a suspicion Planning will also think so.) anyone who lives closer to this have any strong feelings about the massing?

PS, also really like the Octavia Green idea echoing Patricia's Green, and leading to the newly-renovated recreation area to the north.

I live quite close but since it doesn't impact my views directly I wouldn't say my feelings are "strong". But I basically agree with you and, more importantly, I suspect the odds of Hayes Valley accepting this without a fight are zero to none.

And by the way, it does have a thread of its own: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9089880#post9089880

I'm going to take the discussion there.

[timbad]

Originally Posted by homebucket

nice shot, of course, and I am often struck in seeing this view in particular that, at the time of the 1989 earthquake, while almost all of the buildings to the left of Market St existed, the vast majority of the prominent ones on the right did not.

[pseudolus]

Originally Posted by homebucket

Another nice recent shot of the skyline:



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/luzfgu/view_from_twin_peaks/

whatever you might think about Salesforce Tower, it's hard to deny it's stunning at the Golden Hour

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by pseudolus

whatever you might think about Salesforce Tower, it's hard to deny it's stunning at the Golden Hour

I have a direct angled view of it from my place and am constantly seeing it with beautiful hues and reflections, both at sunset and during different weather patterns and seasons. That more than makes up for the somewhat boring architecture for me.

[craigs]

This wasn't initially my favorite design for the tower, but I'm over that. It's an absolutely gorgeous skyscraper and as others have noted, it is continually fascinating in terms of the light that it reflects as well as the crown's animations.

[jbermingham123]

Originally Posted by pseudolus

whatever you might think about Salesforce Tower, it's hard to deny it's stunning at the Golden Hour

Originally Posted by viewguysf

I have a direct angled view of it from my place and am constantly seeing it with beautiful hues and reflections, both at sunset and during different weather patterns and seasons. That more than makes up for the somewhat boring architecture for me.

What im about to say isn't true of most supertalls (IMO anyway), but in the case of salesforce, I think just the height itself is actually an integral part of what makes this tower stunning, simply because of the surrounding geography. Whenever im in SF, i never cease to be amazed by the ways this tower appears out of nowhere, over this hill or that, or pokes out of the fog, or pops up just barely over the top of a random two story building, etc..

SF's hilly geography has made it a (traditionally) very intimate city, with lots of unique neighborhoods that are kept somewhat in their own little worlds by the hills. San Francisco just doesnt feel as fucking BIG as Chicago or New York, because the real horizon is almost always blocked by one hill or another, so you cant take in the true vastness of the city unless you climb to the top of one.
(This is why parks like painted lady are so popular. Its also what makes the views of SF from the Golden Gate Bridge so much more special than the views of flatter cities from their equally large and beautiful suspension bridges.)

Salesforce has changed this. Its one of the few things (along with the bridges and Sutro tower) that is tall enough to be visible from a ton of different areas and angles, and so its one of the only things that can provide SF the wonderful emotional combination of both spatial vastness and unity. It psychologically extends your sense of the horizon when youre "down" in the city, and is a beautiful focal point when youre up high

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by craigs

This wasn't initially my favorite design for the tower, but I'm over that. It's an absolutely gorgeous skyscraper and as others have noted, it is continually fascinating in terms of the light that it reflects as well as the crown's animations.

My only quibble is I wish the much-advertised light show at the top was a little more dramatic with colors other than blue.

[Pedestrian]

Densified Polk Street Development Positioning to Break Ground
March 10, 2021

With the refined plans for a denser, 53-unit building to rise up to 65 feet in height upon the current Jug Shop complex site, on the northeast corner of Polk and Pacific, having been approved and permit requests for the project having been filed, the project team is positioning to break ground this summer.

With that in mind, the Jug Shop is planning to move down the street to the landmark building at 1648 Pacific Avenue. But once the new “1580 Pacific Avenue” building is built, the Jug Shop intendeds occupy a portion of the brand new retail space which will front both Polk and Pacific.

http://socketsite.com/archives/2021/03/d...lopment-positioning-to-break-ground.html

I don't know about the rest of you but this one kind of snuck up on me--don't recall hearing about it before.