On foggy days (most days in SF let's be honest) the tower disappears into the clouds, while all others sit below the line. I wonder if it breaches the fog on the upside? Anyone been up there? That would be quite a sight. I know the golden gate bridge often does, at 746 ft, while salesforce tower is over 1000 ft tall, so it seems possible.
If you're ever in the Bay Area, go across the bridge to Sausalito and look back at the city at sunset. The Salesforce Tower looks like a chrome cylinder jammed into some mashed potatoes. It's incredible how much newer and shinier it looks; totally out of place.<p>It'll probably dim with age, but right now it really doesn't fit with the rest of the buildings due to sheer newness.
I was just in San Francisco over the weekend, and this tower really caught me off guard. Thing is fuckin massive, completely changes the skyline.<p>Crazy to think about in a city as notoriously expensive as SF.
Pardon the naive question, but is a high-rise corporate office like this one (and firms in NYC) preferable to a sprawling "groundscraper" campus (Google, FB)? Which layout costs less? How does this affect management and organizational structure?