The Potrero Power Station is the opportunity to create a contemporary neighborhood which captures the unique character everyone loves about San Francisco. Restoring this remarkable waterfront site is an important urban legacy for our generation. Having begun with the exceptional work of Herzog and de Meuron setting the bar, we believe that the Potrero Power Station has enormous promise. What follows are initial thoughts to begin the process of developing a design for Block 8.

A building today is interesting only if it is more than itself, especially if it charges the spaces around it and makes connections with the context that surrounds it by sharing a common language.

Block 8 is a pivot at the center of the Potrero Power Station development.

The form echoes the other pivotal building, the smoke stack.

Our building is a stepped rotating object, a hub connecting to the buildings around it. This cohesive identity to the building, its nameable good shape, is what will make Block 8 graspable and memorable.

Our activated street levels are along the long blocks which connect to the Bay, Humbodlt Street and Power Station Park, illustrated here. We aim to make them continuous with the street and park, where inside and outside totally blur.

The power of the site is its location at the water’s edge and the importance of view. All window are oriented out of the grid which shapes the development, looking down streets and through corridors, out to water views. All interiors are angled to look out to the bay.