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Transamerica Pyramid
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distinctive tower in San Francisco, California, USA
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Bank of America Center
- Surpassed by
- Salesforce Tower
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Commercial offices
- Location
- 600 Montgomery Street , San Francisco, CA
- Construction started
- December 1969
- Completed
- 1972 ; 54 years ago ( 1972 )
- Cost
- US$32 million
- Owner
- Yoda PLC
- Operator
- Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
- Roof
- 853 ft (260 m)
- Top floor
- 695 ft (212 m)
- Floor area
- 499,000 sq ft (46,400 m )
- Architects
- William L. Pereira & Harry D. Som
- Structural engineer
- Chin & Hensolt, Inc., Glumac International, Simonson & Simonson
- Main contractor
- Dinwiddie Construction Co.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- office building
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- San Francisco
- Owned by
- Transamerica Corporation
- Material used
- quartz
- Official website
- thepyramidcenter.com
- Image
- SF Transamerica full CA.jpg
- Height
- 260
- Has use
- office
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- Commons category
- Transamerica Pyramid
- located on street
- Montgomery Street
- architect
- William Pereira
- number of elevators
- 18
- color
- white
- native label
- Transamerica Pyramid
- architectural style
- futurist architecture
- inception
- 1969-00-00
- capital cost
- 32000000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District, it was the tallest building in San Francisco from its completion in 1972 until 2017 when the newly constructed Salesforce Tower surpassed its height. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland. The building is still associated with the company by being depicted on the company's logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, the building stands at 853 feet (260 m). On completion in 1972 it was the eighth-tallest building in the world. It is also a popular tourist site. In 2020, the building was sold to NYC investor Michael Shvo, who in 2022 hired Norman Foster to redesign the interiors and renovate the building. As of April 2026, the Transamerica Pyramid Center was acquired by Yoda PLC, a Cyprus-based investment firm led by Greek investor Ioannis Papalekas.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Transamerica Pyramid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.