1/Buildings in San Francisco that look like sand-colored rectangles: A thread

2/Let's start with Market Center, a tower complex that looks like it was designed by a 6-year-old boy learning to use the rectangle tool in Microsoft Paint:

3/Or 525 Market Street, which looks like the same kid's drawing, but several minutes later

4/Spear Tower shook up the format by...increasing the size of the windows slightly!

Gotta give em credit.

5/The Pacific Gas and Electric Building got really creative by...adding some slightly taller windows on the very top floor!

6/...But, their trick was quickly copied by the shameless imitators over at 650 California Street.

7/Please give credit to the purists at 123 Mission Street, who stubbornly went with the classic, simple, beautiful "sand-colored rectangle with small windows" look.

True beauty never goes out of style.

8/The good people at 100 Van Ness Avenue took this classic style and asked "How can we make it look just a little more like a prison?"

9/While the visionaries who designed 50 California Street asked: Why have little rectangles dotting the side of our sand-colored rectangle, when we can just have lines?

10/100 Pine Center and 45 Fremont Street both decided to mix things up by grouping the windows into small rows of 3 or 4.

11/Four Embarcadero Center looks like a sand-colored rectangle that was slashed by a bunch of monofilament wires, just before it falls apart into six much thinner sand-colored rectangles:

12/This building is called "The Paramount", but I really don't see how it's better than the other sand-colored rectangles SF has to offer.

13/The Providian Financial Building: NOT QUITE A RECTANGLE, HAHA FOOOLED YOOOOU

14/The Russ Building: Sand-Colored Rectangles, but Make It Gothic

15/McKesson Plaza: More of a dirt-colored rectangle, really

16/One Sansome Street: More of an off-white rectangle, really

17/Embarcadero West: Several sand-colored rectangles stuck together

18/595 Market Street: A sand-colored...hexagon? Octagon?

19/Three Embarcadero Center: You can't even see it among all the sand-colored rectangles

20/Anyway, as you gaze upon this forest of sand-colored rectangles, remember that the main building that people complain about in San Francisco is...

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Salesforce Tower.

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