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It's on the Meter – World Taxi Challenge was a round-the-world motoring expedition that broke the Guinness World Records for the longest ever journey by taxi and the highest altitude ever reached by taxi. The expedition's three-man team used a 1992 Fairway Driver London Black Cab to drive 43,319.5 miles (69,716.12 km) around the world.
101 Second Street is an office tower located in the South of Market district in San Francisco, California on Mission Street. The 108 m (354 ft) building was completed in 2000 and has 26 floors with 388,000 sq ft (36,000 m 2) for offices. It is known for its glass-clad, four-story atrium which functions as public space.
Many of San Francisco's tallest buildings, particularly its office skyscrapers, [9] were completed in a building boom from the late 1960s until the late 1980s. [10] During the 1960s, at least 40 new skyscrapers were built, [ 11 ] and the Hartford Building (1965), 44 Montgomery (1967), Bank of America Center (1969), and Transamerica Pyramid ...
Fresco by Diego Riviera in the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute 295 San Francisco Eagle Bar: 396–398 12th Street October 29, 2021 296 Casa Sanchez Building: 2778 24th Street February 11, 2022 297 Crocker National Bank Building: 1–25 Montgomery Street March 14, 2022 298 "Allegory of California" fresco 155 Sansome Street ...
The building includes a free, 20-passenger aerial tram to provide access from street level (at Mission Street and Fremont Street) to the rooftop park. [7] Described as a "whimsical gondola" by the building's architects, [ 8 ] it was the second passenger-carrying aerial tram to operate in San Francisco, after the one formerly located at the ...
The modern taximeter was invented by German Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn in 1891, [3] and the Daimler Victoria—the world's first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897. [4] Taximeters were originally mechanical and mounted outside the cab, above the driver's side front wheel.
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The KPMG Building is a 25-story, 100 m (330 ft) Class A office building located at 55 Second Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, designed by Heller Manus, and completed in 2002. [5]