I make a mental note of how rich this experience is no detail has been overlooked. That’s when I notice round blue stickers on the floor every few feet telling me to “look up.” I do so to find a porthole skylight in the ceiling peeking into the crown of the building. I round the perimeter of a walkway lined with large windows, hoping for a break in the clouds. He plays with a smile, clearly thrilled to be here. He sits between two columns covered top-to-bottom in green and red plants - some of the 12,000 plant species in the building. The rich wood of the piano matched the space perfectly. I wonder what Pandora playlist this is before looking down the hall to see a man sitting at a baby grand piano. A jazz piano worthy of any hip lounge plays throughout the space. “It’s made to look like an inviting living room,” says Michele Schneider, Salesforce’s Senior Vice President of Global Workplace Services and our tour guide.Īnd then I notice the music. Life-sized Salesforce characters - including Astro, Einstein, and Cloudy - give the space an approachable feel. ![]() So much for those views! Every San Franciscan’s love-to-hate weather pattern, Karl the Fog, has struck again.ĭespite the elegant aesthetic of wood and leather, the space has a playful touch with a color pattern of purple, green, orange, and yellow. So much fog, in fact, that it looks like a white cloth has been draped over the building. I walk out of the elevator to find a beautiful, sophisticated space with hardwood floors, plush sofas, marble countertops, and fog…lots and lots of fog. For months, I’d watched men and women in hard hats and boots file into the service elevator for a trip up to a place I hadn’t seen yet.īut now it’s Dreamforce, and a group of international journalists getting a tour won’t notice one more scribe, a correspondent from “Bloglandia.” Right? The impressive design and construction - and subsequent installation of the world’s highest public art exhibit at the top - were an ongoing human endeavor. Just picture the space full of people, as it will be in early 2019, open to employees, customers, partners, and community members - like non-profits and educations groups who will be able to use the space for events at no charge.īut The Tower didn’t just happen. I’d share that the top floor is all about community. ![]() I’d tell them about how modern and cool it was that the tallest office building west of the Mississippi River is also one of the greenest anywhere. ![]() When I moved into The Tower earlier this year, I assumed I would frequent the Ohana Floor, sipping a chai latte from the barista bar or showing it off on the weekend to visiting family members. Hi, I’m Laura of the Salesforce Blog team. Let me take you back - or rather, down - to where I normally am on a daily basis, on a much lower floor. The elevator doors whoosh open, and we are here – 1,070 feet above the Bay Area, at the top of Salesforce Tower.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. In my mind, I try to take stock of my expectations. The thrust beneath my feet is confident and quick - 39 seconds quick, to be exact.
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