The Marriott Marquis at 55 Fourth Street in SoMa is the 47th tallest tower in SFYIMBY’s Countdown of the 52 tallest buildings planned or built in the Bay Area. This asymmetrical tower stands as the most prominent postmodernist skyscraper in the city and an enduring icon in the skyline. The hotel was completed in 1989 with a rooftop height of 436 feet.
New plans have been published for the mixed-use rehabilitation of 1049 Market Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The six-story property has been at the center of a long struggle between the building owner, the residents,…
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.
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.
Construction permits were submitted for the Preliminary Project Assessment of an apartment building planned at 1204 Howard Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The project proposal includes constructing a five-story apartment building with retail spaces on the first floor. The building will feature a total of twelve dwelling units with a mix of one and two-bedroom units. Tecta Associates is the architecture firm managing the design concepts and construction of the project.
The total site area is 4,500 square feet, the total proposed built-up area is 16,875 square feet, and the total commercial area proposed is 3,351 square feet. A total of seven bike parking spaces are also proposed.
