Salesforce Tower
Glass supertall obelisk driven nearly three hundred feet to bedrock, crowned by a nightly light-art sculpture.
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This guide to Salesforce Tower in San Francisco opens next door, at Millennium Tower's slow, secret sinking, before turning to architect Cesar Pelli's decision to drive this building's foundation nearly three hundred feet through mud and sand to bedrock. It follows the engineering gamble through the tower's 2018 opening and into what artist Jim Campbell did with eleven thousand LEDs wired near its crown. Watch the top of the tower after dark for what the light installation does throughout the year.
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