Power Station, designed by Herzog & de Meuron (HdM), laid the foundation stone as an extension of the Dogpatch district in San Francisco. It will create new homes, honor the city’s industrial past, and reconnect the community to the San Francisco Bay waterfront.

The power plant will be a mixed-use and income residential area with a majority population and delivering around 2,600 new homes. Anchored by a historic 91 m (300 ft) high pile and a block-long former industrial workhorse called Station A, the built-up area will have 3 hectares of park and open space as well as a boutique hotel, which is made up of a former steam power plant, in addition to restaurants and cafes and shops. These elements are conquering an area of ​​the waterfront that was cut off from the public for almost 165 years.

Local development team Associate Capital is redesigning the 12 hectares (29 acres) of the post-industrial Central Waterfront, creating new places to live, work, visit and play. Less than 10 years after its shutdown, this former fossil fuel power plant, which served much of San Francisco for more than a century, will work with Pier 70, its immediate neighbor to the north, to create a bay extension to the Dogpatch neighborhood.

Power Station team leader Enrique Landa, a partner at Associate Capital, said the neighborhood will be built in phases over the next two decades. Landa announced that the phasing of the power plant has been redesigned to better meet three goals: accelerate the introduction of more housing, including 100 percent affordable housing; more space for life science applications; and the renovation of Station A, one of the historic buildings in the neighborhood.

Past meets future
Landa stated that the original phase plan in phase 1 included a single residential building with approximately 315 units. The revised first phase now includes three residential buildings with more than twice the number of apartments (735 units), including one affordable residential building. Two buildings will be designed by Fosters + Partners and the third by Leddy, Maytum, Stacy Architects.

“This is a unique opportunity to make the most of a neighborhood’s industrial past and connect it with what the community needs and wants in the 21st century,” said Armstrong Yakubu, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners.

“The reinvention of the Power Station will breathe new life into an important building from the city’s turbulent past and anchor this area as a travel destination on the San Francisco coast,” said Jason Frantzen, Senior Partner at HdM.

The mixed-use new neighborhood will also include 148,645 m2 (1.6 million sf) of office / life science and / or laboratory space; 9290 m2 (100,000 sf) retail; and community serving amenities. The record architect for all power plant buildings to date is Adamson Associates Architects.

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Herzog & de Meuron are converting the former power station in San Francisco into a mixed-use project

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Start of construction for Herzog & de Meurons Conversion of a former power station building in San Fransico into a mixed-use project. The adaptive reuse of the iconic Station A was designed in collaboration with the California office Adamson Associates and is part of the Portrero Power Station project, the redevelopment of 29 hectares of industrial site in an extension of the Dogpatch district. The design by Herzog & de Meuron retains and re-utilizes various features of the industrial building while adding a lightweight steel frame construction, breathing new life into one of San Francisco’s landmarks.

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Originally intended for demolition, Station A, one of the historic buildings in the Dogpatch district, is now being repurposed as the local community campaigned for its preservation. Building on its experience with adaptive conversion projects such as the London Tate Modern, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie or the Madrid Caixaforum, the Swiss company Herzog & de Meuron proposes a careful reassessment of the qualities of the industrial site and assigns new uses to the architectural features of the former power station.

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The reinvention of the Power Station will breathe new life into an important building from the city’s eventful past and anchor this area as a travel destination on the San Francisco waterfront ”- Jason Frantzen, Senior Partner at Herzog & de Meuron.

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During the renovation of station A, a large part of the turbine hall, whose foundations support the raised floors, will be retained. The various platforms, which once housed the machines for generating electricity, become meeting areas with a view of the atrium-like space of the turbine hall. The facade of the upper structure is overhanging, the project integrates natural ventilation strategies and thus sets a sustainable transformation of the industrial building. The ground floor of the station will contain a lobby, conference center and multifunctional rooms, while the upper floors will be reserved for offices.

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The power plant plan is San Francisco’s largest development project to date and will include residential, retail, office and outdoor spaces, creating a new mixed-income neighborhood on the city’s waterfront. Other buildings within the development will be designed by Foster + Partners and LMS Architects.

Station A

• Land area: 47,000 m²
• Gross floor area (GFA): 430,000 m²
• Footprint: 109 ‘x 433’
• Customer: California Barrel Company LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Design consultant: Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland
• Executive architect: Adamson Associates, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Herzog & de Meuron team partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Jason Frantzen (responsible partner), Simon Demeuse
• Herzog & de Meuron Project Team: Maximilian Beckenbauer (Associate, Project Director), Ryan Cole (Project Manager), Marion Achach, Alessandro Arcangeli, Iwona Boguslawska, Carly Dean, Josh Ehrlich, Ahmed Fetahu, Carly Gertler, Ciarán Grogan, Josh Helin, Brandon Lawry, Richard Nelson-Chow
• Herzog & de Meuron project team concept phase: Maximilian Beckenbauer (Associate, Project Director), Ryan Cole (Project Manager), Bruno de Almeida Martins, Carla Ferrando, Brandon Lawry, David Goncalves Monteiro, Richard Nelson-Chow, Alexander Pearson, Matteo Zapparoli

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