560 Mission Street Plaza (JP Morgan’s West Coast Headquarters) This 16,000 square foot urban plaza was designed for Hines Development Corp. in downtown San Francisco and sits adjacent to an office tower designed by Cesar Pelli Associates. The plaza provides a large, street-level, publicly accessible open space that has become a neighborhood destination for gathering. The plaza features a large bamboo grove that buffers one edge of the plaza and allows visitors to experience a landscape unique to San Francisco’s South of Market District. Awards National American Society of Landscape Architects Design Merit Award, 2003 7x7 Magazine, Best New Public Space, 2004 Credits Client/Developer: Hines Landscape Architect: Completed by Christian Lemon while at Hart Howerton Design Architect: Cesar Peli Associates Architect: Kendall Heaton Associates Interior Architect: IA MEP Engineer: Flack + Kurtz Year Completed: 2002 « back to portfolio index