The TransAmerica Pyramid is an office tower at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, designed by the architect William Pereira and completed in 1972 as the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation. Its distinctive tapering pyramidal form, unusual among American skyscrapers of its era, was intended to admit more light and air to the street below than a conventional flat-sided tower of the same floor area, and two narrow wings partway up its shaft, one holding an elevator machine room and the other a smoke tower, break the otherwise unbroken taper. At 48 stories it was the tallest building in San Francisco for decades and remains one of the city's most recognizable landmarks, despite Transamerica itself no longer occupying the building.
Facts
Building Type Location600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper
Location section
Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District
Lead, completion
completed in 1972
Lead, height
the building stands at 853 feet (260 m)
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The TransAmerica Pyramid is an office tower at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, designed by the architect William Pereira and completed in 1972 as the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation. Its distinctive tapering pyramidal form, unusual among American skyscrapers of its era, was intended to admit more light and air to the street below than a conventional flat-sided tower of the same floor area, and two narrow wings partway up its shaft, one holding an elevator machine room and the other a smoke tower, break the otherwise unbroken taper. At 48 stories it was the tallest building in San Francisco for decades and remains one of the city's most recognizable landmarks, despite Transamerica itself no longer occupying the building.
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Modernist architecture in California
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