JPMorgan Chase Building, Office skyscraper in Financial District, San Francisco, United States.
The JPMorgan Chase Building is a 31-story office tower at 560 Mission Street, designed by César Pelli and completed in 2002. Its facade is a dense grid of rectangular windows separated by thin mullions, with a narrow horizontal band of lighter panels near the top. The tower rises behind a lower flat roof section and stands between a lighter blue-green glass tower and a stone-colored building.
Construction began in 2000 and the tower was completed in 2002 under the design of architect César Pelli. The project emerged during a period of renewal and development within San Francisco's financial core.
The public parklet at the tower's foot holds George Rickey's kinetic sculpture Annular Eclipse, set above a thin sheet of water in a granite-lined pool. Landscape architect Christian Lemon of Hart Howerton planted only bamboo, Japanese maples and grass, with tables placed among them. Curbed listed the space among the city's best privately owned open places.
The building has two underground parking levels and maintains security screening at the main entrance where visitors must check in. Access to interior spaces is restricted, but the ground-level plaza is open to the public during business hours.
The plaza's landscape was designed by Christian Lemon of Hart Howerton, using only bamboo, Japanese maple and grass around a granite-lined pool. The kinetic sculpture Annular Eclipse by George Rickey turns above a thin sheet of water there. The building's design drew visual inspiration from the Hallidie Building.
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