World Famous Architect Renzo Piano to Build San Francisco Tower
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A new development at First and Mission in San Francisco is slated to be designed by world famous architect Renzo Piano is coming to the Transbay Terminal neighborhood. The properties have been put together by David Choo who is President of California Mortgage and Realty.
City leaders are hoping the signing of Renzo Piano to the project will help lead the city to an architectural rebirth for the city. For how high property values are in San Francisco I think that they can incorporate higher level designs more easily than most other cities.
If Piano signs on, it could be the first glamorous project in what city officials hope will be a new era of architectural distinction. Several months ago, Planning Director Dean Macris and Mayor Gavin Newsom announced an initiative to encourage more modern, innovative, high-quality design in San Francisco. Macris said Piano and Choo are in conversation, and expressed his admiration for the architect.
“The idea that we would have an opportunity for one of the world’s leading architects to do a building at this location is great,” said Macris. “We’re looking forward to that possibility.”
A global heavyweight
Piano, who designed the rebuild of the California Academy of Sciences now under way in Golden Gate Park, is known as an international superstar. He’s behind the expansion of both the Whitney in New York and the High Museum in Atlanta and has public and private projects around the world in Sydney, Tokyo and Paris, but recent American commissions have made him a familiar and golden name in the United States.
“He’s certainly one of a very short list of preeminent architects in the world that have a significant body of work,” said David Meckel, director research and planning and former dean of architecture at California College of the Arts. “He’s done a lot of buildings, and almost every one of those buildings responds to place. No two look alike.” via San Francisco Business Times:.
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