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Originally Posted by AndrewK
Why can’t they just, like, keep going when they get to the top? Then it would be taller. Seems easy.
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One reason why it is not as easy as it may seem, is that all the engineering and design, particularly the foundation system and internal core, was developed specifically for a 400-foot tall structure. To just "keep going" would compromise all that.
Speaking of height, we are fortunate the SF Planning Commission allowed a 100-foot rise on a site literally a block from Bay waves. I didn't see that coming given the history of sensitivity about height at that location.
As far as the buildings' design, in my opinion it is amongst the most dynamic The City has ever seen, the genius of Jeanne Gang, frankly a building I did not expect to be built in SF, and as such a pleasant surprise, to me at least. On approach to SF on the Bay Bridge, it will be a spectacular "Welcome to San Francisco" image. (One Oceanwide Center will similarly be a dramatic presence on the skyline, another pleasant design surprise, but that's another discussion forum.)