A geology-inspired sustainable tower has been completed at San Francisco’s Mission Rock. Called The Canyon, the 350,000-square-foot, 23-story mixed-use building was built as part of a master plan that transforms a windswept parking lot on the San Francisco waterfront into a new sustainable neighborhood, known as Mission Rock, with housing for middle-income residents. With jagged walls and a publicly accessible «canyon» providing a route through the site, The Canyon recalls the dramatic geology of California, inspired in part by the charismatic topography of San Francisco.
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