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Transamerica Pyramid is the Highest Skyscraper and Probably Best Known in the San Francisco Sky

San Francisco, everyone's favorite city, is located on the tip of a peninsula between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific coast. A dense city of steep hills surrounded by three sides of water, San Francisco is famous for its summer fog, Victorian architecture, cable cars and beautiful scenery. Just remember: Don't call it Frisco and bring warm clothes. The famous quote "The coldest winter I've ever missed is summer in San Francisco" not from Mark Twain but this is a pretty accurate statement about the weather of San Francisco.

Transamerica Pyramid is the highest skyscraper and probably best known in the San Francisco sky. Although it is no longer at the headquarters of Transamerica Corporation, it is still very much associated with the company. Designed by architect William Pereira, this building was completed in 1972 and is the fifth tallest building in the world. Located in the heart of the Financial District, the Transamerica Pyramid is another famous San Francisco icon besides Golden Gate. According to the architect, William L. Pereira, a pyramid is the ideal form for skyscrapers, offering the advantage of letting more air and light on the streets below.


Completed in 1972, the Transamerica Pyramid has a height of 260 meters (853 feet) and is still the tallest building on the horizon of San Francisco. 'The Transamerica Pyramid', the tallest building in the city of San Francisco, functions as a 48-storey office building. Designed by architect William Pareira and built by the company Hathaway Dinwiddie, which was completed in 1972, as one of the 8 tallest buildings in the world, at the time that. As a pyramid-shaped building, which is very pointed, this building has 4 flat sides, cone to the highest end. This building has a "wing", which is a tunnel between the east elevator and the direction to the western part of the building. From the 4 sides of a straight wall that cones upward, it means that the concept of this building, has 4 main lobbies, in accordance with the direction of 4 winds.

And in the highest part of this building, it is covered with aluminum panels, where when there is a big celebration, especially nationally, from this point (the aluminum panel and the top of this pointed pyramin), it will glow like a light or a lighthouse, called "Crown Jewel " 'The Transamerica Pyramid Center' provides value for the city of San Francisco. Apart from being truly historic as a beautiful and highest unique building in the city of San Francisco, this building also provides a wealth of information about the history of the city of San Francisco.