A Tower in Outer Sunset?

SCB shares additional imagery of its 50-story tower planned for San Francisco.

Solomon Cordwell Buenz, the architects behind the proposed 50-story residential tower at 2700 Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, has released new renderings that further detail the project’s design. It will include 680 residential units, 110 of which will be affordable. Renderings of the tower show rounded corners with a ridged array of balconies extending from the envelope. A double-height, copper-colored podium brings some color to the otherwise glass and metal facade.

When the project was first proposed in 2020, the San Francisco Planning Department took issue with it and its potential violations of Urban Design Guidelines regarding shadows (particularly over parks and the nearby zoo). The ongoing conflict between the developer,