The Transamerica Pyramid -San Francisco Skyscraper

km) of steel rebar . It has 3678 windows. The building's foundation is 9 feet (2.7 m) thick and was the result of a 24-hour continuous concrete pour. Only two of the building's 18 elevators reach the top floor. The original proposal called for a 1150 ft (350 m) building, which would have been for one year the second-tallest completed building in the world. The proposal was rejected by the city planning commission on the grounds that it would have interfered with views of San Francisco Bay ...
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