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It's very difficult to believe a site this small can support a building taller than TAP. It's nice to see those rumors from six months ago becoming reality!
     
     
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I love it. Very fitting tower to complement the pyramid.
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It's very difficult to believe a site this small can support a building taller than TAP. It's nice to see those rumors from six months ago becoming reality!
Here's another view of the site from Socketsite:


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Nice to hear San Fran. is catching up in height with Seattle. For the amount of people living in San. Fran. they don't have any 1000 footers. I don't rally like the design. It might change a little, the green doesn't seem nice. Well, congrats San Fran. for another 900 foot+ proposal. Isn't this the third?
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Wow. SF might have a great skyline in a few years. (That is not a shot at SF either. I just am not a big fan of much of the skyline.)
     
     
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this totally turned my bad day into an AWESOME day!!
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Heller Manus' green glass is at it again. No matter though, the design is great. I see a very pleasant reference to Transamerica here. The height is also pretty good for the size of its lot. Overall, another great proposal for our city. I expect to see more proposals such as these over the next few years, keep em' coming .
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Wow. SF might have a great skyline in a few years. (That is not a shot at SF either. I just am not a big fan of much of the skyline.)
That's a view that several people here have suggested, but I wonder what they are talking about. I find it difficult and bizarre to view the San Francisco "skyline" in parts, whether they constitute "much of" it or just bits of it. San Francisco does have a lot of uninspired architecture which got built because it came out of the Planning Dept. design review sausage grinder which has a goal of inoffensiveness, not inspiration. But the skyline taken as a whole is really quite dramatic and spectacular, punctuated as it is by Coit Tower, the pyramid and now One Rincon Hill. And the setting--the bay, the bridges and the hills--makes up for a lot of bad planning and resultant mediocre architecture as well as providing unequaled (anywhere!) vantage points for viewing the skyline. Taken not in parts but as a whole, we have a great skyline now which these buildings would make much better.
     
     
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^I love the skyline because it is so dense. Maybe people have complaints because there aren't any particularly tall buildings. Of course SF sits near and earthquake hotspot so I'm rather glad that they haven't built taller until safer methods were devised.
     
     
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This building is an even greater reflection of this beauty, Maritime Plaza (photo: survivalarts.com)
     
     
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Wow. SF might have a great skyline in a few years. (That is not a shot at SF either. I just am not a big fan of much of the skyline.)
We have a great skyline right now which BT explains very succinctly. Just compare our skyline from the Bay Bridge with any shot of downtown Minneapolis for example...
     
     
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I should have figured some of you would have taken my comments as a personnal attack. It wasn't. I just have never understood the big deal with the SF skyline. Yes SF is at one of the best locations on the Earth but that does not translate into a great skyline. What bothers me is that many of the best looking buildings in SF are blocked in by boxy 60's/70's buildings. With the exception of a few buildings it looks like a very boxy skyline from most angles.
     
     
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We have a great skyline right now which BT explains very succinctly. Just compare our skyline from the Bay Bridge with any shot of downtown Minneapolis for example...
Yeah, but I don't think that people are benchmarking our skyline against Minneapolis. I always hear people mention that our skyline isn't New York or Chicago.

I think that a few of these taller buildings (if they actually get built) will do wonders for the height issue. In addition, they should bring some life to the monotony that is the downtown high rises. I must say that when I recently visited downtown LA, while they certainly don't have the sheer concentration of high rises, their buildings look far more interesting (with the exception of the Transamerica Pyramid).
     
     
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I should have figured some of you would have taken my comments as a personnal attack. It wasn't. I just have never understood the big deal with the SF skyline. Yes SF is at one of the best locations on the Earth but that does not translate into a great skyline. What bothers me is that many of the best looking buildings in SF are blocked in by boxy 60's/70's buildings. With the exception of a few buildings it looks like a very boxy skyline from most angles.
I didn't take what you said as an attack. I just disagree that the large number of bad buildings--the ones you call boxy--ruins the whole. I also tried to explain that SF has one of the most rigorous "entitlement" processes around which is the cause of much of the mediocrity because its goal is inoffensiveness, not grandeur and the planning bureaucrats can force good architects to modify their designs--often in response to the demands of NIMBYs. To be fair, this sometimes makes designs better as in the case of The Infinity, but in the building boom of the 60's and 70's that was rare.
     
     
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Heller Manus' green glass is at it again. No matter though, the design is great. I see a very pleasant reference to Transamerica here. The height is also pretty good for the size of its lot. Overall, another great proposal for our city. I expect to see more proposals such as these over the next few years, keep em' coming .
That is the first thing I thought(Transamerica reference). those triangles at the base and especially about 2/3's of the way up are right out of Transamerica. I like it.
     
     
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I should have figured some of you would have taken my comments as a personnal attack. It wasn't. I just have never understood the big deal with the SF skyline. Yes SF is at one of the best locations on the Earth but that does not translate into a great skyline. What bothers me is that many of the best looking buildings in SF are blocked in by boxy 60's/70's buildings. With the exception of a few buildings it looks like a very boxy skyline from most angles.
I didn't take it as a personal attack either and certainly agree with you that we have some fugly boxes downtown. It's the sheer density along with the nice buildings that makes the whole so interesting to me. Come back out and see how the latest batch of "shorter" buildings has contributed to the scene.
     
     
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I must say that when I recently visited downtown LA, while they certainly don't have the sheer concentration of high rises, their buildings look far more interesting (with the exception of the Transamerica Pyramid).
You're right roadwarrier. LA has some gorgeous buildings but, in general, not an impressive skyline from most angles. One great exception is viewing them from Pershing Square in the heart of downtown--it's very impressive. The view from the east when driving in from Pasadena is good also.
     
     
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Stephenapolis and all--just thought I'd give you one or two shots I took (photo police please note!) showing the SF skyline from a place a lot of people see it but rarely post it here and that show why I just can't accept it as "bad":





This, by the way, is pretty much what the Planning Dept. would want you to see: widely separated slender towers. It's what they talk about on Rincon Hill (which you can't see in these shots). What you do see, of course, is Russian, Nob and Telegraph Hills and Pacific Heights with the tallest downtown "icons" (those nasty things per John King) sticking up.
     
     
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The only thing holding me back from doing flips over the design is the exposed structure midway up. Other than that I love it and feel it's a fantastic proposed addition to SF.
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