The ninth tallest tower in the Bay Area planned or built is One Rincon Hill, one of the tallest fully residential buildings west of the Mississippi River. Finished in 2008, the 641-foot tower led the procession of construction that now defines Rincon Hill and the southern portion of San Francisco’s SoMa skyline overlooking the Bay Bridge. Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the project architect.
New aerial imagery shows construction has topped out for the first residential structure in the Tasman East Specific Plan, Santa Clara. Demolition has also finished on two more substantial sites. Tasman East is a multi-developer multi-structure mixed-use masterplan with plans to build as many as 4,500 new residential units with newly-laid streets, over a hundred thousand square feet of retail, a grocery store, school, open space, and affordable housing.
Permits have been filed seeking the approval of a residential project proposed at 5976 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. The project proposal includes the development of four townhomes. Plans call for the demolition of an existing Wilco Supply building on the site. Branagh Land, Inc is the project applicant. Hunt Hale Jones Architects is responsible for the design concepts. Gates & Associates is the landscape architect.
New photographs show that portions of the now-closed Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club have been demolished as part of the Related Santa Clara masterplan. Related Santa Clara is an $8 billion proposal to dramatically redevelop the former golf course with new offices, housing, shops, hotels, a 30-acre public park, and more. Related Companies and the City of Santa Clara as part of a joint venture, with Foster + Partners as the design architect.
New renderings have been published by Studio Gang for Terraine, an 18-story mass timber tower at 201 West Julian Street in Downtown San Jose. The proposal would create new rental housing across from Arbor, the half a million-square-foot office building Jeanne Gang’s firm is also designing. Terrascape, Westbank, and Gary Dillabough of Urban Community are responsible for the development.
