OAKLAND | 1510 Webster Street | 187 FT | 19 FLOORS

[homebucket]

Will eventually become the tallest mass timber building on the West Coast and the second tallest in the country.

Specs:
- 187 FT | 19 FLOORS
- 222 units (53 1BR, 169 2BR)
- 35 of the units will be affordable for households earning 80% of AMI
- 2,930 sq ft of retail
- Parking will be included for 0 cars and 76 bicycles
- Public transit access: 5 min walk to 12th St/Oakland and 19th St/Oakland BART stations and AC Transit bus lines 12, 14,29, 33, and 62.

The current site:
https://goo.gl/maps/Dkcknzdv6FeeJG2n7

Construction will start from a single-story concrete podium, with 18 floors of mass ply panels, a material different from cross-laminated timber. Each panel will be five inches thick made of 45 layers of stripped wood, allowing the team to use younger trees and without destroying matured groves.

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1510 Webster will become the second tallest mass timber building in the country. The tallest mass timber building in the country, and the world, is the recently-completed Ascent Building in Milwaukee. With a rooftop height of 284 feet, it narrowly beats a 278-foot apartment tower in Norway.

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Andrew Ball asserted that the use of mass ply panels instead or concrete and steel was saved oWow 15% in overall cost and a 25% reduction in construction time. Because of the unique needs of the material, construction will also look different. There will not be scaffolding, and facade installation will happen quickly to protect the ply panels, at most five floors below the top levels.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/02/foundati...n-oakland.html

[homebucket]

Some more renderings:











https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/demoliti...n-oakland.html

[homebucket]

Foundation pour:

[homebucket]

The architectural style for 1510 Webster was made to respect the adjacent YWCA Building designed by the famous early 20th-Century architect Julia Morgan. Earth-tone terracotta or precast material will complement the historic structure, with the six-story podium datum responding to the neighbor’s height. A public passage will cut through the ground level, bringing pedestrians to a cloistered plaza by retail.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/02/foundati...n-oakland.html

[fimiak]

Very nice shots, and thank you for making this thread. A thread beginning with a foundation pour is very nice to see.

[homebucket]

Taken by unpermitted_variance in the OAKLAND | Project Rundown & Development thread:

Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

1510 Webster (19 floors/187ft): As Homebucket shared in the project thread, foundation pour has begun, and I spy a crane base.

[rbehs]

Am I remembering correctly that the tallest mass timber building is in Milwaukee?

[unpermitted_variance]

Originally Posted by rbehs

Am I remembering correctly that the tallest mass timber building is in Milwaukee?

That's correct, although there are several taller proposals that I know of in Vancouver, and probably more elsewhere.


Crane is up for this project, visible form the north end of the lake by the cathedral: (sorry for crappy pics)

[homebucket]

^ Nice! Looks like you got a good shot of 1900 Broadway too!

[homebucket]

This one is progressing nicely.

Mass-Timber Construction At 1510 Webster Street In Downtown Oakland



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON JUNE 5, 2023

Construction has reached the six-story mid-building podium block for 1510 Webster Street in Downtown Oakland, Alameda County. The exposed structure shows off the mass timber framework around the concrete superstructure that makes the 19-story plan unique. Oakland-based oWOW is the project developer and architect.

While the cross-laminated timber is six floors high, two floors of facade panels have already been installed. oWow President Andrew Ball shared with YIMBY at the groundbreaking in October last year about what makes this construction site look unit. He described that there would not be scaffolding, and facade installation would happen quickly to protect the ply panels, at most five floors below the top levels.

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oWow is a vertically integrated firm, including management and architecture. The firm is responsible for the design, with setbacks, facade materials, and a mid-height datum to complement the typology of Julia Morgan’s 1915-built YWCA building across Webster. The podium for 1510 Webster Street is clad with earth-tone terracotta or precast material and rises to a 65-foot datum to mirror the height of the YWCA. The tower levels will be covered with cream flush and white aluminum panels.

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oWow has stated that completion for 1510 Webster is expected by early 2024, with temporary occupancy allowing early move-ins as early as October this year.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/06/mass-tim...n-oakland.html

[Charmy2]

Noice! Might have to take a daytrip out to Oakland to visit! Along with 1900 Broadway