One Steuart Lane

Poised on the San Francisco waterfront, this high-end residential tower integrates balconies and terraces to offer its residents a refined expression of indoor-outdoor California living.

Project Facts
  • Status Construction Complete
  • Completion Year 2020
  • Size Site Area: 20,595 square feet Building Height: 220 feet Number of Stories: 20 Building Gross Area: 212,000 square feet
  • Condo Units 120
  • Awards
    2022, ENR California Regional Best Project - Best Residential/Hospitality, Engineering News Record 2023, Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California 2023, Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, Structural Engineers Association of California
  • Sustainability Certifications LEED BD+C NC (New Construction) Gold, BD+C, Gold
  • Collaborators
    Hood Design Polaris Pacific J. Lauren PR Meyers+ Engineers
Project Facts
  • Status Construction Complete
  • Completion Year 2020
  • Size Site Area: 20,595 square feet Building Height: 220 feet Number of Stories: 20 Building Gross Area: 212,000 square feet
  • Condo Units 120
  • Awards
    2022, ENR California Regional Best Project - Best Residential/Hospitality, Engineering News Record 2023, Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California 2023, Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, Structural Engineers Association of California
  • Sustainability Certifications LEED BD+C NC (New Construction) Gold, BD+C, Gold
  • Collaborators
    Hood Design Polaris Pacific J. Lauren PR Meyers+ Engineers

One Steuart Lane is a LEED Gold certified condominium tower built on one of the last remaining sites on the downtown San Francisco waterfront. Located at the corner of Howard and Steuart streets, the tower contains 120 residential units on 20 floors above a premier restaurant space.

Dave Burk © SOM

The design translates a classic concept in California residential design—indoor-outdoor living—in a way that is perfectly suited to an urban tower. Working from a complex zoning envelope, the architectural massing of the building strategically integrates private outdoor balconies and terraces with required setbacks to provide seamless indoor-outdoor living spaces. The locations of the outdoor spaces are coordinated to break down the vertical orientation of the tower into horizontally-proportioned volumes that relate to the panoramic waterfront landscape they face.

Dave Burk © SOM
Dave Burk © SOM

The facade is composed of an elegantly proportioned, shifting grid of cubic limestone pilasters and lintels. The depth of the stone grid gives the building an appearance of solidity when viewed obliquely, while preserving views from within the units. A minimally reflective, ultra-clear glass facade takes advantage of the abundant sunlight and cool ambient climate in San Francisco to passively heat the units and reduce energy consumption.

To facilitate the panoramic views and unobstructed wrap-around terraces, the building’s structural design comprises stepped flag columns along each elevation and sculptural corner column capitals, along with a computationally-optimized post-tensioning layout, to allow the eight-inch flat slab to cantilever as much as 20 feet.

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