The San Francisco skyline gets taller, 2016. All photos by Sergio Ruiz
Nearly a decade has passed since architects Fred Clarke and Cesar Pelli designed a concept for a San Francisco transit center wrapped in an undulating skin and topped by a quarter-mile-long park. Today, the in-progress Salesforce Tower seems to cheerfully wave with its two construction-crane arms and the Transbay Transit Center, which includes five levels of transit, retail and public open space meant to accommodate more than 100,000 passengers every weekday, is set to complete its first phase of construction by the end of this year.
SPUR’s staff photographer Sergio Ruiz (also a transportation planner) has been documenting the progress of the Transbay Transit Center since just before the original terminal was demolished in 2010.
The original Transbay Transit Terminal, 2010
Construction of the new Transbay Transit Center, 2014
Construction of the new Transbay Transit Center, 2016
Transbay Transit Center "City Park" Construction, August 2016
100 First Street, 2016