Made in SF by Chicagoians
photo credit SCB
Unless you live in San Francisco you may not be familiar with One Rincon Hill, otherwise you'd be hard pressed to miss it. It's a lone towering residential skyscraper of a building waiting for the rest of the city to catch up. It's pretty magnificent in that it's design is a departure from traditional city architecture and it's placement depicts a new void in San Francisco's city skyline. The rest of the city will soon need to catch up where this building now stands and the urban skyscrapers of San Francisco financial district are.
The developer responsible for this structure is Urban West Associates, who brought in the architects at Soloman Cordwell Buenz. While I'm appreciative of their contribution to our city scape, I'm somewhat reluctant to applaud their effort only because they're not SF based. Do we not have the skill or resounding architectural talent here to achieve this dream. Can we not re imagine our own city design. I'm learning Chicago is somewhat of a hub in the US for architecture, but made in SF by SF is something I'd like to see albeit somewhat naive. From SCB's website, a description of their work One Rincon Hill San Francisco, California The project consists of two slender residential towers that step up to the crest of Rincon Hill. The taller 55-floor tower marks the intersection of First and Harrison Streets and has the primary entrance for the complex at its base. This tower has a gently curved wall that acknowledges the entrance and makes a gesture toward the city center. The shorter 46 story tower has a similar curved wall facing the diagonally opposite direction and gestures toward the Bay Bridge and bay. Using balcony locations and varying window patterns, each tower has been visually separated into vertical masses that emphasize their slenderness. The project will contain 709 residential units.What changes are you seeing in our skyline? I'm still seeing an ample amount of construction going up everyday.
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