St. Regis Museum Tower is a highrise in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone Center, PacBell Building and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The 42-storey, 484 ft (148 m) tower is bounded by Mission Street, 3rd Streets and is operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. The hotel recently attained five-star status. ......... from Wikipedia - select 'Wikipedia' tab above to read more.
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab Congress Center (formerly the Orbanco Headquarters Building and Security Pacific Plaza) is an office building completed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon. It is currently the ninth tallest building in the city. The current name is taken from the Congress Hotel located on the site from 1912 until the late 1970s.Built: 1980 Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill location:
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab 50 Fremont Center is a office skyscraper rising 600 ft. (183 m) up from Fremont and Mission Street on the boundary of the San Francisco's Financial District and South of Market Area (SOMA). The tower has 43 stories and was completed in 1985.Built: 1985 Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM style: Modern High-Rise location:
50 Fremont street
San Francisco, California
United States
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab The Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (Chinese: 南京紫峰大厦, also Greenland Square Zifeng Tower) is a 450-metre (1,480 ft) supertall skyscraper completed in April 2010 in Nanjing, China. The 89-story building comprises retail and office space in the lower section, and restaurants, a hotel, and a public observatory near the top. The tower’s stepping is functional, helping separate these sections.Design Architect : Adrian Smith Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM style: Modern High-Rise location:
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab 555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story, 779 ft (237.4 m) skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the second tallest building in the city and a focal point of the Financial District. Completed in 1969, the tower served as 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.Built: 1969 Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM Structural Engineer : H.J. Brunnier Associates style: Modern Architecture location:
555 California street
San Francisco, California
United States
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab The Jin Mao Tower (simplified Chinese: 金茂大厦; traditional Chinese: 金茂大廈; pinyin: Jīn Mào Dàshà; literally "Golden Prosperity Building") is an 88-story landmark supertall skyscraper in the Lujiazui area of the Pudong district of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel. Until 2007 it was the tallest building in the PRC, the fifth tallest in the world by roof height and the seventh tallest by pinnacle height. Along with the Oriental Pearl Tower, it is a centerpiece of the Pudong skyline. Its height was surpassed on September 14, 2007 by the Shanghai World Financial Center which is next to the building. The Shanghai Tower, a 128-story building located next to these two buildings and now under construction, will be even taller.Built: 1998 Design Architect : Adrian Smith Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM style: Modern High-Rise location:
88 Century Boulevard
Shanghai,
China
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab 650 California Street, also known as the Hartford Building, is a 34 story, 142 m, (466 feet) office tower on the northwestern edge of San Francisco's Financial District. The tower is located on California Street on the edge of Chinatown, and not far from 555 California Street. 650 California is visible from every direction except from the southeast, where the Financial District skyscrapers block the view.Built: 1964 Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - SOM Design Architect : Edward Charles Bassett style: International Style location:
650 California Street
San Francisco, California
United States
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab One Park Avenue is a supertall skyscraper 550 m (1,804 ft) tall and will have 125 floors, to be built in Jumeirah Garden City, Dubai. However, construction is on hold due to the financial crisis.Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill location:
continue to profile page : open in new page/tab The Wharf Times Square (Chinese: 无锡九龙仑项目A塔; Chinese: 無錫九龍倉項目A塔) is a late-modernist supertall skyscraper under construction in Wuxi, China. The mixed-use tower is set to rise 339.2 metres (1,113 ft) and contain 83 floors. Construction of the 280,000 square metres (3,014,000 sq ft)-glass and steel-building is expected to be complete in 2014.Built: 2011 Design Architect : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill location: