45 Fremont Center, Office skyscraper in Financial District, San Francisco, United States.
45 Fremont Center is a glass and steel skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, standing 34 stories tall. Its facade is made of reflective panels that mirror the surrounding buildings and sky throughout the day.
The building was completed in 1978, during a period when the Financial District was being rapidly reshaped by a wave of new towers. That construction boom changed a skyline that had previously been dominated by lower buildings.
The tower is often called the Bechtel Building, a name that comes from the offices of the Bechtel Corporation spilling over from its world headquarters next door at 50 Beale Street. Its tenants have included Gensler, Wells Fargo Securities and Dechert LLP, so the lobby and surrounding blocks fill with office workers on weekdays and empty out at weekends.
The tower sits between Market Street and Mission Street, making it easy to reach on foot from the main transit hubs in the area. The lobby is accessible during office hours and gives a closer look at the building's interior design.
The firm that designed the building also handled the engineering, which was uncommon in the construction industry at the time. That close integration between design and structure gave the building a consistency that is still visible in the way the facade and the frame work together.
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