This would be the first U.S. tower for Snøhetta, founded in Norway but on the rise in the United States since being selected in 2004 to design the pavilion for the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum.
Snøhetta will replace an even better-known architect for the corner: Richard Meier, the Pritzker Prize-winning designer of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, whose firm has been working on a tower in the same location since 2008.
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The site in question is directly adjacent the Civic Center's metro stop on Market St., and a large part of the developer's plans revolve around shifting this existing stop one block north, to avoid (in the SFGate author's words) the "squalid even by neighborhood standards" area. The residential tower being built on the site, which includes condominiums with retail space on the ground floor, would account for its affordable housing requirements by building separate properties three blocks away.
Snøhetta's other work in San Francisco includes SFMoMA's expansion, which is currently under construction.
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W/ 30% of units below market rate?
Corner of Market and Van Ness, a major city intersection. Neighbor to the north is the 1913 Masonic Temple cube, by Bliss & Faville (ex McKim, Mead & White) -- a Moorish-inflected curiosity typical of a young western city looking for its roots -- and some prestige ?
http://www.timeshutter.com/image/masonic-temple-van-ness-and-market-streets-san-francisco-cal
The photo above is a spectacularly dreary one -- perhaps taken on a summer morning ! The curious red-and-yellow chevron--shaped building always looked to me like the start of something tall; instead it has been a c. thirty-year placeholder for the presently-contemplated tower. A donut shop long in place will be accommodated, according to the article . . .
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