San Francisco Architecture Walking Tour

Curve and point Old flatiron Transamerica building facing new Transamerica pyramid building

Salesforce Transit Center FUN TIP: The entire building is naturally ventilated. The bus deck is open on the sides and does not require air conditioning or heating, exhaust or air filtration systems.

Salesforce Transit Center FUN TIP: The Main Plaza's rooftop walkable glass floor is the largest of its kind n the U.S

Salesforce Transit Center and Salesforce Tower FUN FACT: The Transit Center is wrapped in a distinctive aluminum awning featuring a non-repeating geometric pattern combining elements of math, science and art discovered by Sir Roger Penrose (a British mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science).

Salesforce Transit Center and Salesforce Tower FUN FACT: During on-site construction in 2012, the fossil of a woolly mammoth tooth was discovered 110 feet deep. In remarkable condition, its enamel was still intact. The tooth is now displayed at California Academy of Sciences.

Salesforce Transit Center and Salesforce: FUN FACT: 25,000 tons of steel were used in the construction, equal to the approximate weight of 5,000 elephants

450 Sutter Medical/Dental Building Impending root canals and cavity fillings are made a touch easier with a trip to this Timothy Pflueger-designed building just off Union Square. Known for its "neo-Mayan" Art Deco design, it was completed in 1929. Of special note is the lobby interior, which stands as one of the city’s finest.

Argentine-American architect César Pelli, renowned for designing landmark skyscrapers around the world, has died on Friday,July 19 - age 92. The AIA Gold medal-winning architect was best known as the designer of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, formerly the world's tallest building and San Francisco's new Salesforce Building (currently tallest building in San Francisco!)

Yeh! Park is reopening on July 1st!

The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype, or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. All of the built-in furniture is constructed out of black walnut, is original to the renovation, and was designed by Manuel Sandoval, who apprenticed and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright. The V.C. Morris Gift Shop was listed in 2007 at number 126 on the American Institute of Architects' list of the 150 favorite buildings in America. The building is one of seventeen American buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that the AIA has designated to be retained as an example of his architectural contribution to American culture

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco The museum's main building is the former Pacific Gas & Electric Jessie Street Substation, which was originally built in 1881 and was rebuilt in 1907 by Willis Polk after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1974. Daniel Libeskind designed the new 63,000 square foot (5,900 square meter) interior of the substation, plus a new deconstructivist cubical addition which extends it. The new museum was completed in 2008 at the cost of $47.5 million.