Foster + Partners, an architecture company in London, is set to build the tallest residential building in San Francisco dubbed the Oceanwide Centre. The real estate property will be 910 feet high and will feature 788,000 square feet of residential space plus 1.08 million square feet of office space and a hotel.
According to Architectural Digest, Oceanwide Centre will have two towers. The property will be located in one of San Francisco's real estate hot spots, The Transbay Transit Center, which is set to open in 2017.
According to the official website of Forest + Partners, the real estate project will feature new pedestrian links through downtown San Francisco. The hotel, residential and office tower will reportedly be the "symbol of this new vertical city quarter" and the "tallest residential project on the West Coast."
"At ground level, the buildings are open, accessible and transparent - their base provides a new 'urban room' for the region, and the new pedestrian routes through the site will knit the new scheme with the urban grain of the city," reads the description of the Oceanwide Centre on the site. According to it, the building will also feature open layouts to provide high flexibility for tenants.
The real estate project will be supervised by collaborating architect Heller Manus Architects and structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates. The landscape architect is Gustafson Guthrie Nichols.
Based in London, Foster + Partners is "one of the most innovative architecture and integrated design practices in the world." It has a wide range of works which include "urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces, private houses and product design." Some of its recent projects include the Apple Store Westlake in China and Bloomberg London in the UK.
