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The Canyon Tower / MVRDV

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created The Canyon, a housing complex in San Francisco that marks its first completed project on the United States' West Coast.
The Canyon is a 23-storey high rise with a 240-foot-tall (73 metres) tower standing on top of a plinth with a bisecting walkway that creates a canyon effect, giving the structure its name.
It features a red-brown facade that the studio describes as "ruggedly textured" and a red colour that references the geological formations of California.
Where the facades meet at the central walkway, the windows and balconies have been stepped back to create the rugged texture.
The building is largely residential, comprising 283 housing units – with nearly a third set aside for "middle-income families" – and two floors of offices above the ground floor.
Ample light is afforded to the apartments via the bisecting walkway, which will also provide access from the street to the middle of the structure and to the wider Mission Rock complex.
The ground level hosts a number of shops and restaurants accessible to the public, while landscaping and public spaces have been added to the roofs of the plinth structure.