![]() ![]() The Great Depression and World War II halted any further skyscraper construction until the 1950s when the Equitable Life Building (1955) and Crown-Zellerbach Building (1959) were completed. Another skyscraper boom took hold during the 1920s, when several Neo-Gothic and Art Deco high rises, reaching three to four hundred feet (90 to 120 m) in height, were constructed, including the Standard Oil Building (1922), Pacific Telephone Building (1925), Russ Building (1927), Hunter-Dulin Building (1927), 450 Sutter Medical Building (1929), Shell Building (1929), and McAllister Tower (1930). Other early twentieth-century skyscrapers above 200 feet (61 m) include the Merchants Exchange Building (1903), Humboldt Bank Building (1908), Hobart Building (1914), and Southern Pacific Building (1916). The Call Building (later named the Spreckels Building, and Central Tower today) would remain the city's tallest for nearly a quarter century.īoth steel-framed structures survived the 1906 earthquake, demonstrating that tall buildings could be safely constructed in earthquake country. The 315-foot (96 m) Call Building was completed in 1898 and stood across Market Street from the Chronicle Building. Not to be outdone, de Young's rival, industrialist Claus Spreckels, purchased the San Francisco Call in 1895 and commissioned a tower of his own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. San Francisco's first skyscraper was the 218-foot (66 m) Chronicle Building, which was completed in 1890. Its skyline is currently ranked second in the Western United States (after Los Angeles) and sixth in the United States, after New York City, Chicago, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles. Six more skyscrapers of over 150 m are under construction, have been approved for construction, or have been proposed. San Francisco has 27 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m). The city's third-tallest building is 181 Fremont, rising to 802 ft (244 m). ![]() The city's second-tallest building is the Transamerica Pyramid, which rises 853 ft (260 m), and was previously the city's tallest for 45 years, from 1972 to 2017. ![]() The tallest building is Salesforce Tower, which rises 1,070 ft (330 m) and as of April 2023 is the 17th-tallest building in the United States. San Francisco, California, in the United States, has at least 482 high-rises, 58 of which are at least 400 feet (122 m) tall. Prior to that, the Transamerica Pyramid (left) was the tallest building from its construction in 1972 until 2017. The Salesforce Tower (right) has been San Francisco's tallest building since its construction in 2017. ![]()
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