SF News Millennium Tower Developer Considers Drilling To Bedrock For New Highrise Amidst the legal and PR kerfuffle they've been dealing with over the last few months regarding the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, developer Millennium Partners appears to be reconsidering the foundation of their
SF News Prices Slashed As Millennium Tower Units Languish On The Market Sitting on a hot piece of real estate in present day San Francisco can sometimes feel like you've pocketed the golden ticket — all you need to do is cash that thing in and
SF News Thanks, LA: Salesforce Tower Won't Be The Tallest Building In The West Those obsessed with tall buildings and those who've been paying attention likely already knew this news. But while Salesforce Tower (née Transbay Tower), which once completed will stand at 1,070 feet, was
SF News Salesforce Tower Throws Shade At Millennium Tower There's been much in the news about downtown's Millennium Tower sinking into the mud and tilting, and a coming wave of lawsuits from homeowners there, and now it looks like reps for their
SF News Salesforce Tower Update: Rising Fast And Installation Begins On Exterior Curtain Wall Installation of the curtain wall has begun #progress #construction #supertall #ilovesf #highrise #cre @salesforce A video posted by Salesforce Tower (@salesforcetower) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:03am PDT Another milestone arrives this
SF News Here's The 60-Story Tower Proposed For The Final 'Super-Tall' Transbay Parcel Sitting beside the Transbay Transit Center, 546 Howard Street's Parcel F is the last "super-tall" site zoned for development of greater than 550 feet. Anything that tall has the potential to radically alter
SF News Awesome, Twisty Tower Designed By Jeanne Gang For 160 Folsom Gets Another Approval It looks like full steam ahead for the rad, unique, 39-story residential tower by acclaimed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang that's been proposed for 160 Folsom Street, one of the final pieces of land
SF News Check Out The Pretty New Tower Proposed For South Van Ness And Otis A rendering has just arrived for one of a gaggle of proposed high-rises that are set to transform the area of mid-Market at the busy intersection of Van Ness. This one is separate
SF News SF's Soon-To-Be Tallest Building Pours Foundation, Will Now Rise Quickly While you were all out day-drinking, the Salesforce Tower construction site was a nexus of major activity on Sunday as an army of cement mixers rolled through to deliver a truly massive amount
SF News This Is What Market And Van Ness May Look Like In A Few Years On the left you have the latest design for One Van Ness, by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. On the right, a proposed residential tower at Mission and South Van Ness by Skidmore Owings
SF News HOK Architects And Salesforce Tower Developer Propose Sculptural Office Tower At 4th And Harrison San Francisco continues to up its architecture game with some new renderings of a proposed HOK-designed 240-foot-tall office tower next to the freeway, on an industrial site in SoMa across from the Whole
Arts & Entertainment Here's The View From The Embarcadero Once Six Proposed New Towers Go Up Near Howard Via Socketsite today, and a "plugged in tipster" over there, we get a rendering (likely from architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill) of their proposed 75 Howard condo building in the context of five
SF News Delayed Glass Leaves Downtown Buildings Bare, Developers Pissed One casualty of the now-resolved contract dispute at the West Coast port has been delayed glass deliveries that have held up San Francisco's many construction projects. As interior work on buildings can't begin
SF News Transbay Developers Only Bluffing, Will Not Sue City As it happens, all that noise last fall from several of the big developers involved in the Transbay district over the special assessment taxes they have to pay to the city was just
SF News Eight Transbay Property Owners Vote To Approve Special Tax; Lawsuit May Still Be Coming Those of you paying attention will remember that there was some major brouhaha between downtown developers and City Hall after the Board of Supervisors voted to approve a previously agreed-upon special-assessment tax for
Arts & Entertainment People Are Mocking The New Design For A Tower At One Van Ness Back in October we heard that plans had shifted for a tall residential tower being developed at the corner of Market and Van Ness which originally had architect Richard Meier attached. The developer
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Skyscraper At First And Folsom Will Look Like Some revised designs for the new Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed high-rise at First and Folsom have arrived, and it's going to be a pretty one. The project is primarily residential, with 545 new
SF News New 5M Development At 5th And Mission Hires American Architect Kohn Peterson Fox, Designs Look Rad Look, you guys! Actual architecture! Forest City, the developer behind the huge new 5M mixed-use complex that's proposed for the block surrounding the Chronicle Building that we talked about last month, has just
SF News Richard Meier Out, Snøhetta In For New Tower At Market And Van Ness As the Chron's architecture guy tells us this week, plans are shifting for the prominent development site at the corner of Market and Van Ness Streets, where we earlier heard we might be
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
Arts & Entertainment We Now Have Renderings Of Tall Towers at First and Mission, and South Van Ness and Mission That Norman Foster-designed, 910-foot tower at First and Mission Streets which did not have a complete rendering as of last week now does, along with a full, early critique by architecture critic John
SF News Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed For First and Mission Architecture critic John King calls plans for two new tall buildings in the Transbay District by starchitect Norman Foster "gasp-inducing," and we don't even have clear renderings yet. Nonetheless, it looks like we
SF News Gorgeous New Highrise Proposed For Transbay District By Noted Architect Jeanne Gang Hooray for tall buildings! A beautiful, 400-foot tower has been proposed for a corner on the north side of the Folsom and Spear intersection with a stunning, undulating design by Chicago architect Jeanne
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Best Skyscrapers (And One Fogscraper) For the most part, San Francisco likes to look up and see its skyline dotted with landmarks and infrastructure more than it likes to look up and see monuments to corporate culture. (Just
Arts & Entertainment Photos: In Transbay District, There Will Be Starchitecture Finally, finally, San Francisco is getting some architecture worthy of a grown-up skyline, and it's coming in the shape of several, major new projects including two from starchitects Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster