345 California Center, Office skyscraper in Financial District, San Francisco, United States.
345 California Center is a 48-story office tower completed in 1986, rising 211.8 m (695 ft) in the Financial District. Its grey stone facade has a dense grid of small rectangular windows, and above the middle two narrow vertical wings flank a recessed strip of blue glass, with a dark band set between them. The top 11 floors sit in twin towers angled 45 degrees to the rest of the building.
The tower was designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill and completed in 1986 during San Francisco's period of rapid vertical expansion. This era saw the city transform its commercial district through the construction of modern office towers.
The tower's top eleven floors, set in twin wings angled 45 degrees to the rest of the building, hold the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero, which has its own entrance at 222 Sansome Street. Glass skybridges link the wings and look out over the San Francisco Bay Area.
The office lobby entrance is on California Street, while the Four Seasons Hotel at Embarcadero has its own entrance at 222 Sansome Street. Parking occupies levels B1 and B2. The tower sits mid-block, with historic buildings on all four corners.
The top 11 floors, originally planned as condominiums, now hold the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero, set in twin towers angled at 45 degrees to the rest of the building. The hotel's entrance is at 222 Sansome Street, separate from the office lobby. Glass skybridges between the towers look out over the San Francisco Bay Area.
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