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Herzog & de Meuron to Convert Former San Francisco Energy Plant into Blended-Use Venture

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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