555 California Street - Wikipedia 555 California Street 555 California Street Bank of America Center Bank of America Center Bank of America Center Show map of San Francisco Show map of California Show map of the US Show all Location within San Francisco Former names Bank of America Center Record height Preceded by 44 Montgomery Surpassed by Transamerica Pyramid General information Status Complete Type Commercial offices Location 555 California Street San Francisco, California Coordinates 37 ° 47 ′ 31 '' N 122 ° 24 ′ 14 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 37.7919 ° N 122.4038 ° W ﻿ / 37.7919 ; - 122.4038 Coordinates : 37 ° 47 ′ 31 '' N 122 ° 24 ′ 14 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 37.7919 ° N 122.4038 ° W ﻿ / 37.7919 ; - 122.4038 Elevation 35 ft ( 11 m ) Completed 1969 Owner Vornado Realty Trust ( 70 % ) The Trump Organization ( 30 % ) Management HWA 555 Owners LLC Height Roof 779 ft ( 237 m ) Technical details Floor count 52 4 below ground Floor area 1,969,979 sq ft ( 183,017.0 m ) Lifts / elevators 38 Design and construction Architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Wurster, Benardi and Emmons Structural engineer H.J. Brunnier Associates Main contractor Dinwiddie Construction References 555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52 - story 779 ft ( 237 m ) skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the fourth tallest building in the city, the largest by floor area, and a focal point of the Financial District. It is the 69th tallest building in the United States, one foot taller than One Worldwide Plaza in New York City and just 1 foot shorter than the 68th tallest building in the USA, which is also owned by Bank of America, the Bank of America Center in Houston, Texas at 780 ft ( 238 m ), and just 2 feet shorter than the 67th tallest building in the USA, 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey at 781 ft ( 238 m ). Some sites round the heights of all four buildings to 780 ft ( 238 m ) making those four buildings tied as the 67th tallest buildings in the country. Completed in 1969, the tower was the tallest building on the West Coast and west of the Mississippi River until the completion of the Transamerica Pyramid in 1972, and the world headquarters of Bank of America until the 1998 merger with NationsBank, when the company moved its headquarters to the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. A 70 percent interest was acquired by Vornado Realty Trust from foreign investors in March 2007 with a 30 percent limited partnership interest still owned by Donald Trump, managed by the Vornado Realty Trust. Contents 1 Background 2 Major tenants 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Background Colloquially known as `` Triple Five '', 555 California Street was meant to display the wealth, power, and importance of Bank of America. Design was by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with architect Pietro Belluschi consulting ; structural engineering was by the San Francisco firm H.J. Brunnier Associates. The skyscraper has thousands of bay windows thanks to its unique design, meant to improve the rental value and to symbolize the bay windows common in San Francisco residential real estate. The irregular cutout areas near the top of the building were designed to suggest the Sierra mountains. At the north side of the skyscraper is a broad plaza named in honor of Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini. Masayuki Nagare 's sculpture Transcendence, locally referred to as `` Banker 's Heart ''. In the plaza the 200 - ton black Swedish granite sculpture `` Transcendence '' by Masayuki Nagare resembles a liver but is derisively known as the `` Banker 's Heart ''. Nearly the entire block -- the skyscraper, the banking hall, the plaza, the stairways, and the sidewalks -- is clad in costly polished or rough carnelian granite. A restaurant, the `` Carnelian Room '', was on the 52nd floor. The elevator to this restaurant is one of the few publicly accessible high - speed elevators in San Francisco. The restaurant closed at midnight New Year 's Eve 2009. In 1971, 555 California Street, then just two years old, appeared at the beginning of the film Dirty Harry, where it is the roof from which Scorpio snipes a woman in the now - closed pool atop what is now the Hilton Financial District hotel on Kearny Street. The film shows panoramic views of San Francisco from the roof of the building. In 1974, 555 California Street was again used for a box - office hit, this time in Irwin Allen 's blockbuster The Towering Inferno, in which the outside plaza substituted for that of the film 's fictional skyscraper, the infamous Glass Tower which on the night of its dedication, catches fire. Many scenes were also filmed in the interior ground - floor lobby. The granite stairs coming up from California Street to the A.P. Giannini plaza were used for several key specific scenes including the opening dedication ceremony, the arrival of fire trucks and the final scene on the steps with the characters played by Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. The rooftop setting of the building used in Dirty Harry was also used a decade later in the Chuck Norris film An Eye for an Eye ( 1981 ). The southeast corner of California and Kearny is about 35 feet ( 11 m ) above sea level, so the top of the building is over 800 feet ( 240 m ). With the Transamerica Pyramid, 555 California Street shows the direction San Francisco 's downtown was moving during the 1960s before campaigns against high - rise buildings in the 1970s and 1980s forced development to move south of Market Street. The Transamerica Pyramid is taller, but because of its top spire, 555 California has the highest habitable space. The corner of California and Montgomery is built on landfill and the lowest level of the parking garage is below the level of the bay, so pumps, audible from the garage, keep water out. The building is built on two huge Teflon slabs meant to slide over each other in case of an earthquake, state of the art design when it was built. Major tenants 555 California Street from street level AllianceBernstein Bank of America Barclays Capital Centerview Partners Dodge & Cox Goldman Sachs Fenwick & West Jones Day Kirkland & Ellis KKR Financial McKinsey & Company Microsoft Morgan Stanley Parthenon - EY RE : UP San Francisco Robert W. Baird & Co. Sandler O'Neill + Partners Servcorp Sidley Austin LLP UBS AG Wells Fargo Advisors See also San Francisco Bay Area portal List of tallest buildings in San Francisco List of tallest buildings in the United States PNC Tower References Jump up ^ `` 555 California Street ''. CTBUH Skyscraper Database. Jump up ^ 555 California Street at Emporis Jump up ^ `` 555 California Street ''. SkyscraperPage. Jump up ^ 555 California Street at Structurae ^ Jump up to : `` Comments and Responses on Draft EIR : Transit Center District Plan and Transit Tower '' ( PDF ). San Francisco Planning Department. 2011 - 09 - 28 : C&R - 38. Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 15. The Bank of America Building is at an elevation of about 35 feet, SFD, so its roof is some 814 feet in elevation. Jump up ^ `` Largest Office Buildings in San Francisco ''. San Francisco Business Times. 2013 - 10 - 18. Retrieved 2013 - 12 - 04. Jump up ^ `` Bank of America in Charlotte Center City Branch - Hours & Locations ''. www.banksnearyou.com. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 04. Jump up ^ Joseph Machnow ( March 16, 2007 ). `` Vornado to Acquire 70 % Controlling Interest in 1290 Avenue of the Americas and 555 California Street ''. Vornado Realty Trust. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 14. Jump up ^ SOM. `` BANK OF AMERICA WORLD HEADQUARTERS ''. SOM. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 15. Jump up ^ Food and Wine Staff ( 3 September 2009 ). `` Carnelian Room Calling it Quits ''. The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 14. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2014 ) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to 555 California Street. Official website Timeline of the tallest buildings west of the Mississippi River Central Tower ( 91 m ) ( 1898 ) Smith Tower ( 141 m ) ( 1914 ) Kansas City Power and Light Building ( 145.1 m ) ( 1931 ) Mercantile National Bank Building ( 159 m ) ( 1942 ) Sheraton Dallas Hotel ( 183 m ) ( 1959 ) ExxonMobil Building ( 185 m ) ( 1963 ) Republic Center Tower II ( 183 m ) ( 1964 ) Elm Place ( 191 m ) ( 1965 ) 555 California Street ( 237 m ) ( 1969 ) Transamerica Pyramid ( 260 m ) ( 1972 ) Aon Center ( 262 m ) ( 1973 ) JPMorgan Chase Tower ( 305 m ) ( 1982 ) US Bank Tower ( 310 m ) ( 1990 ) Wilshire Grand Center ( 335 m ) ( 2016 ) Timeline of the tallest buildings in California Montgomery Block ( 15 m ) ( 1853 ) Old Saint Mary 's Cathedral ( 27 m ) ( 1854 ) California State Capitol ( 64 m ) ( 1874 ) Chronicle Building ( 66 m ) ( 1890 ) Call Building ( 96 m ) ( 1898 ) Standard Oil Building ( 100 m ) ( 1922 ) Pacific Telephone Building ( 133 m ) ( 1925 ) Russ Building ( 133 m ) ( 1927 ) Los Angeles City Hall ( 138 m ) ( 1928 ) Hartford Building ( 142 m ) ( 1965 ) 44 Montgomery ( 172 m ) ( 1967 ) Bank of America Center ( 237 m ) ( 1969 ) Transamerica Pyramid ( 260 m ) ( 1972 ) Aon Center ( 262 m ) ( 1973 ) US Bank Tower ( 310 m ) ( 1990 ) Wilshire Grand Center ( 335 m ) ( 2016 ) Timeline of the tallest buildings in San Francisco Montgomery Block ( 15 m ) ( 1853 ) Old Saint Mary 's Cathedral ( 27 m ) ( 1854 ) Palace Hotel ( 37 m ) ( 1875 ) Chronicle Building ( 66 m ) ( 1890 ) Call Building ( 96 m ) ( 1898 ) Standard Oil Building ( 100 m ) ( 1922 ) Pacific Telephone Building ( 133 m ) ( 1925 ) Russ Building ( 133 m ) ( 1927 ) Hartford Building ( 142 m ) ( 1965 ) 44 Montgomery ( 172 m ) ( 1967 ) Bank of America Center ( 237 m ) ( 1969 ) Transamerica Pyramid ( 260 m ) ( 1972 ) Tallest buildings in San Francisco Skyscrapers over 500 feet ( 150 m ) Transamerica Pyramid 555 California Street 345 California Center Millennium Tower One Rincon Hill South Tower 50 Fremont Center 101 California Street 575 Market Street Four Embarcadero Center One Embarcadero Center 44 Montgomery One Market Plaza Spear Tower One Sansome Street One Rincon Hill North Tower One Front Street First Market Tower McKesson Plaza 425 Market Street One Montgomery Tower Highrises over 400 feet ( 120 m ) 333 Bush Street Hilton San Francisco Union Square Tower I Pacific Gas & Electric Building 50 California Street St. Regis Museum Tower 100 Pine Center 45 Fremont Street 333 Market Street 650 California Street 555 Mission Street The Infinity II 100 First Plaza 340 Fremont Street 399 Fremont Street One California San Francisco Marriott Marquis Russ Building 140 New Montgomery Jasper JPMorgan Chase Building The Paramount Providian Financial Building Three Embarcadero Center Two Embarcadero Center 350 Mission Street 595 Market Street 123 Mission Street 101 Montgomery Embarcadero West 100 Van Ness Avenue LUMINA Highrises over 300 feet ( 91 m ) One Maritime Plaza Four Seasons Hotel Westin St. Francis 456 Montgomery Plaza 535 Mission Street Shell Building Park Central Hotel San Francisco 222 Second Street 199 Fremont Street Hilton San Francisco Financial District One Market Plaza Steuart Tower 425 California Street 100 Montgomery Street Grand Hyatt San Francisco Fox Plaza 101 Second Street NEMA 580 California Street 601 California Street The Infinity I Hilton San Francisco Union Square Tower II 450 Sutter Street InterContinental San Francisco Stevenson Place 150 California Street 225 Bush Street 505 Montgomery Street Blue Shield of California Building Fairmont San Francisco 180 Montgomery Street KPMG Building Central Plaza Sir Francis Drake Hotel The Summit W San Francisco 353 Sacramento Street 555 Market Street Bank of California Building Phillip Burton Federal Building Ritz - Carlton Club and Residences San Francisco Marriott Union Square 88 Kearny Street 388 Market Street Commercial Union Assurance Building Hunter - Dulin Building One Bush Plaza San Francisco City Hall McAllister Tower Apartments Mark Hopkins Hotel Mills Tower Central Tower Under construction Salesforce Tower Oceanwide Center I & II 181 Fremont Park Tower at Transbay Transbay Block 8 706 Mission Street Transbay Block 9 Folsom Bay Tower 33 Tehama Street Planned and proposed Palace Hotel Residential Tower Treasure Island development 5M Project 524 Howard Street 1500 Mission Street See also : San Francisco Designated Landmarks, Buildings and structures in San Francisco Bank of America Divisions Bank of America Home Loans Bank of America Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch U.S. Trust Historical components Banc of America Securities Bank of America, Los Angeles Bank of America NT&SA Bank of Italy Bank of New England BankBoston Barnett Bank Baybank Benj. 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Question: who owns the bank of america building in san francisco
Answer: Vornado Realty Trust