Project Name: 560 Mission Street Plaza (JP Morgan's West Coast Headquarters)
Location: San Francisco, California
Client: Hines
Landscape Architect: Christian Lemon while at Hart Howerton
Design Architect: Cesar Pelli Associates
Architect: Kendall Heaton Associates
Completion: 2003
LEED: Platinum Rated
Awards: National ASLA Merit Award 2004

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