Hyatt Regency San Francisco, High-rise hotel in Financial District, San Francisco, US.
The Hyatt Regency San Francisco is a 1973 hotel at the foot of Market Street and The Embarcadero, the fifth building of Embarcadero Center. Its white tower with grid-like dark windows stands beside a lower wing of grey concrete vertical fins and diagonal cross-bracing, with terraced glass levels below. Inside, a 107-metre-long, 49-metre-wide, 52-metre-high atrium rises between stacked balconies with perforated railings, flanked by two dark elevator shafts and holding Charles O. Perry's sculpture Eclipse.
Opened in 1973 as the fifth building of the Embarcadero Center, developed by Trammell Crow, David Rockefeller and John Portman. Portman said the atrium design came to him from the 1935 science-fiction film Things to Come. The rooftop Equinox revolving restaurant later became the Regency Club Lounge. Sunstone bought the hotel in 2013 for $262 million and sold it to Blackstone in 2026 for $279 million.
The lobby holds Charles O. Perry's sculpture Eclipse, a large modernist work of intersecting curved metal ribbons set on a patterned floor. The rooftop space that was once the revolving Equinox restaurant is now the Regency Club Lounge, a private club for certain guests with 360-degree views of the city and the bay.
The property sits directly beside public transit stops and walking distance from the Ferry Building for easy exploration. Most areas are accessible via elevators, and the central location makes it simple to reach downtown attractions on foot.
The atrium holds the Guinness record for the largest hotel lobby, measuring 107 m long, 49 m wide and 52 m high, equal to 15 stories. John Portman said the design came to him from the 1935 science-fiction film Things to Come. The lobby then stood in for the Glass Tower in the 1974 film The Towering Inferno, for which replica pill-shaped elevators were built.
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