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Salesforce Tower

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Salesforce Tower rises in downtown San Francisco, completed in 2018 to a design by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the firm the architect Cesar Pelli founded and that, under his successors, also designed Malaysia's Petronas Towers decades earlier. At 326 meters it is the tallest building in San Francisco, its tapered form and rounded profile intended to reduce its visual bulk against the surrounding skyline while maximizing efficient office floor plates. The tower's crown carries Rise, a large public art installation by the artist Jim Campbell that uses thousands of programmable LED lights to project abstract, diffused imagery of the city onto the building's exterior after dark, one of the largest such installations in the world. A skybridge links the tower directly to the elevated rooftop park atop the neighboring Salesforce Transit Center, which shares its corporate naming sponsor. The building was developed under the working name Transbay Tower before Salesforce acquired naming rights ahead of its completion.

Facts
Building Type
Commercial offices, retail 1
Location
415 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 1
Completed Year
2018 1
Height (m)
326 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Commercial / Shop 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Uses Element

Source Wikipedia: Salesforce Tower
Source Wikipedia: Salesforce Tower
Source Wikipedia: Salesforce Tower
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1. Wikipedia: Salesforce Tower
  • Infobox, building_type
    Commercial offices, retail
  • Infobox, location
    415 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
  • Infobox, completion_date
    2018
  • Introduction, sentence 3
    1,070 feet (326 m) tall
  • infobox building_type/type field: Commercial offices, retail
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Salesforce Tower rises in downtown San Francisco, completed in 2018 to a design by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the firm the architect Cesar Pelli founded and that, under his successors, also designed Malaysia's Petronas Towers decades earlier. At 326 meters it is the tallest building in San Francisco, its tapered form and rounded profile intended to reduce its visual bulk against the surrounding skyline while maximizing efficient office floor plates. The tower's crown carries Rise, a large public art installation by the artist Jim Campbell that uses thousands of programmable LED lights to project abstract, diffused imagery of the city onto the building's exterior after dark, one of the largest such installations in the world. A skybridge links the tower directly to the elevated rooftop park atop the neighboring Salesforce Transit Center, which shares its corporate naming sponsor. The building was developed under the working name Transbay Tower before Salesforce acquired naming rights ahead of its completion.
  • Uses Element: Glass, Wikipedia lead
    The exterior of the building consists of a glass and steel curtain wall with a steel frame and a concrete core.
  • Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia lead
    The exterior of the building consists of a glass and steel curtain wall with a steel frame and a concrete core.
  • Uses Element: Concrete, Wikipedia lead
    The exterior of the building consists of a glass and steel curtain wall with a steel frame and a concrete core.
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