Henning Larsen

Visa's Market Support Center

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center

Henning Larsen

ARCHITECTS
Henning Larsen

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT OF RECORD
GLS

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company

PROJECT MANAGER
Veronica Varela

GEOTECHNICAL
Langan Engineering

PARTNER IN CHARGE
Daniel Baumann

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Henning Larsen Architects

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Thornton Tomasetti - OLM

MEP DESIGN ASSIST
Acco, AFP, PAE, Cupertino

DESIGN TEAM
Louis Becker, Michael Sørensen, Kelly Holzkamp, Grant McCracken, Jacob Strøman, Mike McElderry, Royce Perez, Stephanie He, Oskar Tranum, Howard Taikitsadaporn, Isabella Hubsch, Bomin Park

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT (CHINA BASIN PARK)
SCAPE

TRASH
American Trash Management

FACADE MAINTENANCE
Highline Partners⁠

ACCESSIBILITY / ADA
ZNA, Earthlink

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT
Y.A. Studio

BUILDING ENCLOSURE ENGINEER
Heintges & Associates

WATERPROOFING
SGH

CIVIL ENGINEERS
BKF

LEED
Brightworks

LIGHTING COMPANY
Pritchard Peck Lighting

LIFE SAFETY / CODE CONSULTANT
The Fire Consultants

ACOUSTICS
Papadimos Group

CTRANSPORTATION
Nelson Nygaard

WIND TUNNEL
RWDI

VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
EWCG

CLIENT
San Francisco Giants, Tishman Speyer, Port of San Francisco

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jason O’Rear

AREA
28810 m²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
San Francisco, United States

CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Commercial Architecture

Visa's Market Support Center
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Inspired by the basalt rock formation of California’s Devils Postpile in Yosemite National Park, Henning Larsen’s design of Visa’s new Market Support Center has taken its final form.

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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The 13-story tower is one of four buildings in Phase One of the multiphase Mission Rock neighborhood. The Visa building is an architectural centerpiece, establishing the neighborhood as a new place to work, play, and live.

Transforming 28 acres of San Francisco’s southern waterfront, Mission Rock is a new neighborhood for the city.

Visa's Market Support Center
© Jason O’Rear
Visa's Market Support Center
© Jason O’Rear

A public-private partnership between Tishman Speyer, the San Francisco Giants, and the Port of San Francisco, the mixed-use development is establishing a new framework for civic life; former industrial land is revived as home to a residential community, innovative workplaces, local producers, makers and creators, shops and cafes and social amenities.

The Visa Market Support Center features a white, ruggedly faceted façade, accented by terraces that ascend from the building’s base, visually extending nearby China Basin Park, a new 5-acre public park by SCAPE which opened in April 2024.

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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“Drawing inspiration from the geologic formations of California’s Yosemite National Park, our design distills these influences into a 'neighborhood' scale by carving massing volume into smaller bays, evoking the smaller scale and charm of San Francisco's traditional neighborhoods.

The faceted carved white precast façade, captures the play of light and shadow throughout the day, imbuing the building with an ever-changing appearance fitting its site on the new waterfront.” said Daniel Baumann, Partner and Design Director, Henning Larsen

From street level, the carved massing creates a dynamic, varied appearance, reminiscent of San Francisco’s famous topography.

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Located on Toni Stone Crossing, the Visa campus appears as a detailed rock face, a dynamic mass of stacked blocks and vertical sheers.

The tower itself rises up from a fifth-floor mesa, crowned with wind-sheltered rooftop terraces.

Visa’s employees have access to outdoor terraces which wrap around from the second to fifth floors and crown the building’s peak.

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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They offer a peek into the Giants’ Oracle Park as well as views of the San Francisco skyline and the Bay Bridge stretching across the waters of the San Francisco Bay.

“I’m delighted about the scale and texture of this new neighborhood, and the collaborative process with Tishman Speyer, the Giants and the cohort of internationally renowned architects that has created a truly special place,” said Daniel Baumann, Partner and Design Director, Henning Larsen

Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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A shared vision, the main urban plan was collectively designed by Perkins and Will and CMG. Henning Larsen, Studio Gang, WORKac, MVRDV and SCAPE were appointed to create the architectural vision for Phase One, supported by local teams.

At full completion, Mission Rock will consist of eight acres of parks and green space, over 1,000 new homes, with 40% reserved for moderate-income households, approximately 1.4 million square of office space and 200,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

“To create a space that integrates seamlessly into the fabric of San Francisco’s newest neighborhood, our approach to Mission Rock was born out of meaningful collaboration and a shared understanding of the urban environment.

Through a series of workshops with clients and co-designers, we developed a scheme in which individual elements are conceptually united to create an architectural and social centerpiece for the city, Daniel Baumann, Design Director, Henning Larsen


Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Visa's Market Support Center
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Henning Larsen
T +45 8233 3000
Henning Larsen
Vesterbrogade 76, 1620 København, Denmark