I always felt like the outer skin of the Golden 1 Center could be traced back to Thom Mayne's
Cal Trans building in Los Angeles which was finished in 2004 and was one of the early projects that attracted attention to the new LEED certification here in California. The same ideas were adapted a few years later to make the
Federal Building in San Francisco. I've seen a lot of similar design work in other contemporary LEED projects though. Since the technology drives the design in sustainable architecture, I think there's a lot of cross-pollination going on.