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2000 North Shoreline Boulevard aerial view, rendering via BIG and Heatherwick Studios

Google’s Futuristic Charleston East Building at 2000 North Shoreline Boulevard Nearly Finished, Mountain View

5:00 am on February 8, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction is underway for the unusually shaped office building at 2000 North Shoreline Boulevard, nearby the waterfront in Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The project is a low-slung structure designed by high-profile architects; it is a collaboration between Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studios. Google is responsible as the developer and future tenant. Uniquely and in many ways true, Heatherwick Studios describe the project “as Google’s first bespoke office building.”

New Apartment Complex Planned For 2415 Valdez Street In Oakland

5:00 am on February 5, 2021 By Team YIMBY

Development permits have been submitted seeking the approval of constructing a new six-story apartment building on 2415 Valdez Street in the Northgate-Waverly, Oakland. The project proposal includes building a residential complex consisting of eighty-nine mixed micro-efficiency units. The total area of the lot is 7,309 square feet.

140 New Montgomery Street from Howard Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 48: 140 New Montgomery Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on February 4, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

140 New Montgomery Street, first called the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, is tied as the 48th tallest tower in SFYIMBY’s countdown of the 52 tallest buildings planned or built in the Bay Area. The PT&T Building is arguably the most influential skyscraper in this city among its contemporaries, as it was the first to bring to life Eliel Saarinen’s conceptual Tribune Tower design. The tower opened in 1925 to be the tallest skyscraper in the city, rising 435 feet tall. The verticality and slight setbacks were novel for the Bay, and the style would be replicated. Timothy L. Pfleuger is the architect responsible.

Facade Installation Imminent for 100 Stockton Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco

5:00 am on January 29, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction has passed a milestone for 100 Stockton Street, an adaptive reuse of a seven-story mid-century department store into a mixed-use retail and office building near Union Square in the Tenderloin, San Francisco. Portions of the building’s exterior are starting to show up, including the aluminum frame for the distinctive third-floor cantilever. Morgan Stanley and Blatteis & Schnur are responsible for the development.

The Russ Building, image via San Francisco Public Library's public catalog

Number 48: Russ Building at 235 Montgomery Street, Financial District, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 28, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The Russ Building, located at 235 Montgomery Street, is the forty-ninth entry on SFYIMBY’s countdown of the fifty-two tallest proposed or finished towers in the Bay Area. With a rooftop height of 435 feet, it is tied as the 48th tallest skyscraper. It is the first on our list to not be in SoMa, to share its position with another building, and to have once held the title as tallest in the city. It is also the second oldest skyscraper on our list, having opened in 1927. It contains modernized office space in San Francisco’s Financial District. After a 2016 renovation, it received LEED Platinum certification. Shorenstein Properties manages the building, with the Swig Company as the property owner.

Facade Nearly Complete at 277 27th Street, Northgate-Waverly, Oakland

5:00 am on January 26, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Holland Partner Group is overseeing the construction of an 18-story residential building at 277 27th Street in Northgate-Waverly, bordering Downtown Oakland. A recent site visit shows construction has topped out, and most of the exterior facade is installed. Once complete, the apartment building, called VESPR or 24th and Harrison, will bring 405 apartments and 65,000 square feet of ground-level retail.

385 14th Street along 13th Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Construction Finished For 385 14th Street, Downtown Oakland

5:30 am on January 25, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Construction has finished for the forty-story tower at 385 14th Street in Downtown Oakland. Completed this year, the Atlas is now the second tallest building in the city and the tallest apartment building in Oakland at 400 feet. It includes 633 units on top of 17,350 square feet of retail. Carmel Partners is the developer, with Greystar managing the marketing and leasing.

Jasper at 45 Lansing Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 50: Jasper at 45 Lansing Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 21, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Coming in as the fiftieth tallest tower in the Bay Area built or planned is Jasper, a prominent building along the San Francisco skyline perched on Rincon Hill. The 430-foot tower at 45 Lansing Street, SoMa, was completed in 2016 by Miami-based Crescent Heights and then purchased in the summer of 2019 by Northwestern Mutual for $306 million. The development was made possible by San Francisco’s 2005 Rincon Hill Plan, a neighborhood-focused zoning program that helped pave the way for many of the towers on our list to offer housing in the Central Business District.

338 Spear Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 51: Infinity 1 at 338 Spear Street, SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 14, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The fifty-first tallest structure in the Bay Area is Infinity 1 at 338 Spear Street, SoMa, San Francisco. The 423-foot tall tower opened in 2008 as one of the distinguishing symbols for the development south of Market Street, especially given its prominent position beside the Bay Bridge. Its undulating dark cyan curtain-wall facade reflects modernist architecture’s evolution in the new millennium, facing pressure to reject traditional ornamentation and the boxed rigidity of the 20th-century modernist design. Tishman Speyer was the developer for the construction and remained as the property owner.

MIRA Completed in Summer of 2020, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 52: MIRA at 160 Folsom Street in SoMa, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 7, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

There’s a new project afoot. SFYIMBY plans to highlight the 52 tallest skyscrapers planned and completed in San Francisco as of January 1st, 2021. This list will include towers nearly a century old and projects that haven’t even broken ground. We start with 52nd place, Studio Gang’s MIRA at 160 Folsom Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The 422-foot tower opened its doors last year, but even before opening, the building has garnered significant attention with a twisting facade responding to the city’s historic architectural vernacular.

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