California Automobile Association Building, Office tower in San Francisco, United States.
100 Van Ness is a 400-foot (122 m) tower of 29 floors on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center neighborhood, near San Francisco City Hall. Completed in 1974 as an office building for the California State Automobile Association, it was converted to 418 rental apartments by 2015, with interiors by Irish designer Colum McCartan.
The building was designed and constructed in 1974 by Solomon Cordwell Buenz during a period of intense vertical growth in San Francisco. It represents a phase of modernization and economic expansion in the city.
The building's name recalls the California State Automobile Association, which occupied its 29 floors from 1974 until 2010, when the association moved its headquarters near Walnut Creek. The CSAA had sold the tower in 2008 and leased it back for two more years. The address, 100 Van Ness, remains the common name on the Civic Center skyline.
The tower stands at 100 Van Ness Avenue, across from San Francisco City Hall in the Civic Center. It is now a residential building with 418 rental apartments, so interiors are not open to visitors; the exterior can be seen from the sidewalk and from Civic Center Plaza nearby.
The upper floors offer panoramic views of San Francisco Bay and the business district through floor-to-ceiling windows. This vista is one of the visual highlights of the building's location.
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