Looking through this weekend’s home tours on the Dwell website, one in particular caught my eye: Arterra.

This is a 269-unit condo tower recently completed in the Mission Bay area, which not only looks interesting and innovative on the outside — I like the blue and orange colors and the offset window depths — but boasts that it’s San Francisco’s first LEED-certified residential high-rise (LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a construction rating system developed by the US Green Building Council).

From Dwell’s site:

The building features two green roofs, low-VOC materials, Energy Star appliances and dual-flush toilets. The façade is made from Trespa, an environmentally friendly product developed from end-of-lifecycle recycled materials.

John King, the Chronicle’s architecture columnist (how great is it that San Francisco’s newspaper still has an architecture column!?) wrote about Arterra in August, and found the design to be a visual standout in an area that plays host to many generic designs.