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450 Sutter Street, also called the Four Fifty Sutter Building, is a twenty-six-floor, 105-meter (344-foot) skyscraper in San Francisco, California, completed in 1929.The tower is known for its "Neo-Mayan" Art Deco design by architect Timothy L. Pflueger. [4]
San Francisco's first skyscraper was the 218-foot (66 m) Chronicle Building, which was completed in 1890. M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. [4]
Address: 45 3rd Street Phone: 415-989-4000 Rates: $4 per half hour Distance: 6-minute walk Official website. Sutter-Stockton Garage; 444 Stockton Street Phone: 415-982-7275 Rates: 75-cents per half hour Distance: 8-minute walk Official website. Towne Park; Located in: Flower lot Address: 201 2nd Street Phone: Rates: $2 per half hour Distance: 9 ...
The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1972 to 2017, when it was surpassed by the under-construction Salesforce Tower. [16] It is one of 39 San Francisco high rises reported by the U.S. Geological Survey as potentially vulnerable to a large earthquake, due to a flawed welding technique. [17]
Within a month of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the faculty of the medical school voted to make room in their building for a teaching hospital by moving the departments responsible for the first two years of preclinical instruction across San Francisco Bay to the Berkeley campus. In March 1907, the new hospital opened with 75 beds.
Concrete buildings constructed before 1980 would account for half of the deaths in San Francisco if a magnitude 7.2 earthquake were to hit the nearby San Andreas fault, according to a 2010 study ...
Two Embarcadero Center is an office skyscraper located off The Embarcadero in the financial district of San Francisco, California. [4] The 126 m (413 ft), 30-story tower, completed in 1974 is part of the Embarcadero Center, a complex of seven towers, of which two are hotels. [5]
345 California Center is a 48-story office tower in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 1986, the 211.8 m (695 ft) tower is the fifth tallest in the city after the Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, 181 Fremont, and 555 California Street if the spires are included. It was originally proposed to be 30 m (98 ft ...