The 52-story (779 foot) building dominates the San Francisco skyline with its bulk and dark color,and was designed by Myron Goldsmith and Mark Goldstein. On the entie length of its rise, sawtooth bays on a polished dark-granite skin masterfully pick up the late afternoon sun, turning the tower (at least for brief moments) from a menacing presence above the white city into a purple-hued march into night. Massive piers support a glass curtain wall on the separate low-rise banking hall. Both tower and hall are set within a raised and austere plaza reached by a wide cascading stairway
Bank of America Building (1990)
555 California St
Skidmore, Owings and Merill, Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons, Pietro Belluschi