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Originally Posted by pseudolus
whatever you might think about Salesforce Tower, it's hard to deny it's stunning at the Golden Hour
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Originally Posted by viewguysf
I have a direct angled view of it from my place and am constantly seeing it with beautiful hues and reflections, both at sunset and during different weather patterns and seasons. That more than makes up for the somewhat boring architecture for me.
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What im about to say isn't true of most supertalls (IMO anyway), but in the case of salesforce, I think just the
height itself is actually an integral part of what makes this tower stunning, simply because of the surrounding geography. Whenever im in SF, i never cease to be amazed by the ways this tower appears out of nowhere, over this hill or that, or pokes out of the fog, or pops up just
barely over the top of a random two story building, etc..
SF's hilly geography has made it a (traditionally) very intimate city, with lots of unique neighborhoods that are kept somewhat in their own little worlds by the hills. San Francisco just doesnt feel as fucking BIG as Chicago or New York, because the real horizon is almost always blocked by one hill or another, so you cant take in the true vastness of the city unless you climb to the top of one.
(This is why parks like painted lady are so popular. Its also what makes the views of SF from the Golden Gate Bridge so much more special than the views of flatter cities from their equally large and beautiful suspension bridges.)
Salesforce has changed this. Its one of the few things (along with the bridges and Sutro tower) that is tall enough to be visible from a ton of different areas and angles, and so its one of the only things that can provide SF the wonderful emotional combination of both spatial vastness and unity. It psychologically extends your sense of the horizon when youre "down" in the city, and is a beautiful focal point when youre up high