Saturday scenery: Saleforce looms over San Francisco

With cracked beams closing the Salesforce Transit Center and the tech giant's "Dreamforce" user conference embroiling downtown last week, it seems a good moment to share some views I've collected of the giant tower that now dominates San Francisco's skyline.

Our boom times have brought plenty of glass and steel towers, but the Salesforce building looms over them all.

From nearby, it peeks over the Bay Bridge deck.

On Potrero Hill, it rose up to take over the view.

From the side of Twin Peaks, it's the big one.

Even several miles south in the Excelsior district, there it is.

The tower is also the view from Presidio Heights.

This is one of my favorite views: over railroad tracks near Mission Bay where the port used to be. This area too is slated for development.

All images from my Walking San Francisco project, currently on hold while I campaign in Reno.