The Bank of America Center is a 52-story, 237 meter (779 ft.) skyscraper at 555 California Street in San Francisco, the second tallest in the city and the focal point of the Financial District. Completed in 1969, it was the world headquarters of Bank of America prior to its merger with NationsBank, at which point the company moved its headquarters to Charlotte. The building is sometimes called Triple Five Cal based on its street address. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Shaklee Terraces, San Francisco, designed in 1982 with a flush aluminum and glass facade and rounded corners. ... A hardwood floor (parquetry) is a popular feature in many houses. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... The Financial District and the Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Coit Tower. ... See also Banc of America Securities, Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. ... NationsBank was a large banking corporation in the United States, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... The Bank of America Corporate Center is an 871 ft (265m) skyscraper in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. ... For other uses, see Charlotte. ...

On September 22, 2005, it was announced that the building had been sold by its owners, a group known as 555 California Street Partners, to Hudson Waterfront Associates, a New York real estate concern, for a reported $1.05 Billion USD. The building will continue to be managed by the Shorenstein Company. September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NY redirects here. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The Shorenstein Company, LLC, is one of the United States largest and oldest privately owned real estate firms, owning interests in, or managing, some 20 million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space. ...

The Bank of America Center was meant to be a deliberate and unmistakable display of Bank of America's wealth, power, and importance. To that end, the center was handled by top architecture firms Wurster, Benardi and Emmons and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with famed architect Pietro Belluschi consulting. The structural engineering was performed by the renowned San Francisco firm H. J. Brunnier Associates. The skyscraper incorporates thousands of bay windows thanks to its unique design, meant to improve the rental value. At the north foot of the skyscraper is a large plaza named in honor of Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini that is often shaded during the day, leading to it being criticized as cold and windswept by many. Within the plaza is a large black sculpture by Masayuki Nagare that is locally 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. An exclusive restaurant, the Carnelian Room, is located on the 52nd floor. Shaklee Terraces, San Francisco, designed in 1982 with a flush aluminum and glass facade and rounded corners. ... Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings. ... 1928 Time cover featuring Giannini Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was the founder of the Bank of America. ...

A view of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge taken from the roof of the Bank of America Center in 1971, as shown in the film Dirty Harry

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In 1974, the building was again used extensively for filming of a box-office hit, this time The Towering Inferno, in which the outside plaza substituted for the film's fictional skyscraper, the infamous Glass Tower. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster film directed by John Guillermin, adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, and starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... The Glass Tower is a fictional skyscraper featured in the 1974 Irwin Allen disaster film The Towering Inferno. ...

Together with the Transamerica Pyramid, the Bank of America Center is evidence of the direction San Francisco's downtown was moving during the 1960s before numerous campaigns against high-rise buildings in the 1970s and 1980s forced development to move south of Market Street. The Transamerica Pyramid. ... South of Market or SoMA (South of Market Area) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. ...

Major tenants

Bank of America Center from street level

• Bank of America
• Dodge & Cox
• Goldman Sachs
• Fenwick & West
• Kirkland & Ellis
• Lehman Brothers
• McKinsey and Company
• Morgan Stanley
• Sidley Austin LLP
• Shorenstein Company
• Sutter Securities Incorporated
• Tucker, Ellis & West
• UBS PaineWebber

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See also

• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area

External links

• 555 California Street Website
• Profile at Emporis Building Database