• Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

  • Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

    Photography credit to Marion Brenner, Tim Griffith

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2020 WAN Awards entry: Salesforce Transit Center and Park - PWP Landscape Architecture

Salesforce Transit Center and Park by PWP Landscape Architecture is an entry in the Urban Landscape Category of the 2020 WAN Awards

by Copy taken from 2020 entry 23 June 2020 2020

Completed in August 2018, this multi-modal transit center in downtown San Francisco links 11 transit systems and connects the city to the region, the state, and the community. The sustainable design includes a 5.4-acre rooftop park that is the central public open space of a new mixed-use neighborhood. Salesforce Park brings nature, horticulture, art and a mixture of botanical and active programmed experiences to the City’s downtown while tying into the sustainability program of the building that sits below it.

Conceived as a multifunctional recreational space that provides respite, activity, and education for transit users, office workers, tourists and locals, the park was integrally designed with the building to achieve expansive areas of soil to support large, healthy trees and to tie into the architectural structural, mechanical and sustainability systems. The living systems of the park and its robust vegetation work hard as a high-performance landscape designed to filter and detain stormwater that lands on the building, combat urban heat island effects, sequester carbon from the vehicles using the facility and treat grey water from restrooms.

Measuring one block wide and four blocks long, Salesforce Park’s long and thin format creates a sequence of episodic experiences, rather than a singular monumental field. The park is a series of multi-functional spaces both intimate and expansive, providing places for social gathering, events, activities, play and education. Dramatic and ecologically focused gardens provide rich experiential, ecological and horticultural engagement for park visitors and habitats that offer glimpses into an array of nature’s wonders.

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Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WAN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding projects, take a look at the winners from last year here

 


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