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Above left: view from the South of the Financial District,
with among others 100 First Plaza (left) and 50 Fremont Center (middle).
Above right: San Francisco seen through the wires of the Golden Gate Bridge.


Above left: One Embarcadero Center (173m/567f, 45 stories, 1971).
Above middle left: Spear Tower (a.k.a. 1 Market Plaza), 172m/564f, 42 stories, 1976).
The smaller tower on the left is Steuart Tower (111m/364f, 27 stories, 1976).
Above middle right: the top of 44 Montgomery (a.k.a. Wells Fargo Building (172m/565f, 43 stories, 1966).
Above right: Citicorp Center (168m/551f, 39 stories, 1984), with 44 Montgomery on the left.


Above middle: Chevron Tower (175m/573f, 40 stories, 1975).
Above middle left: McKesson Plaza (161m/529f, 38 stories, 1969).
Above middle right: the top of 333 Bush Street (151m/495f, 43 stories, 1986).
Above right: Telesis Tower (152m/500f, 38 stories, 1982).


Above left: 100 First Plaza (136m/447f, 27 stories, 1988).
Above middle: not a very tall building, but a great looking nonetheless:
388 Market Street (94m/308f, 24 stories, 1987).
Above right: Two Embarcadero Center (126m/413f, 30 stories, 1974).


Above left: close-up shot of some of the buildings of the Financial District,
with among others the four Embarcadero Center buildings.
Above middle: reaching for the sky, with the Transamerica Pyramid.
Above right: the city seen from the Golden Gate Bridge,
with a Panamanian Ship sailing in from the Pacific Ocean.


Above: a seagull with in the background one of San Francisco's most famous landmark:
the Golden Gate Bridge.
The pylons of this bridge are 227m/745f tall. The bridge was completed in 1937
and was the world's longest for almost 50 years.
Today, the bridge still ranks among the 10 longest bridges in the world.

Go here to a special page with pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge

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San Francisco's tallest skyscrapers:
1. TRANSAMERICA PYRAMID 260m/853f, 48 stories, 1972
2. BANK OF AMERICA CENTER 237m/779f, 52 stories, 1969
3. 345 CALIFORNIA CENTER 212m/695f, 48 stories, 1986
4. 101 CALIFORNIA STREET 183m/600f, 48 stories, 1983
5. 50 FREMONT CENTER 183m/600f, 43 stories, 1982
6. CHEVRON TOWER 175m/573f, 40 stories, 1975
7. FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTRE 174m/569f, 45 stories, 1982
8. ONE EMBARCADERO CENTRE 173m/567f, 45 stories, 1971
9. 44 MONTGOMERY 172m/565f, 43 stories, 1967
10. SPEAR TOWER 172m/564f, 42 stories, 1976


The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings and some of the building information are courtesy of
EMPORIS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.

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