{"id":519,"date":"2014-07-09T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/?p=519"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:13:00","slug":"transamerica-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2014\/07\/09\/transamerica-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Transamerica Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-515 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Transamerica_8448\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448-195x348.jpg 195w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8448-688x1224.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\"><strong>The Transamerica Pyramid<\/strong> is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, who moved their U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company&#8217;s logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at 853 ft (260 m), on completion in 1972 it was the eighth tallest building in the world.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #404040;\">[excerpt from Wikipedia]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-516 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape-460x258.jpg 460w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8240_Cityscape-688x386.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-517 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"TransamericaUP_8465\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465-460x258.jpg 460w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TransamericaUP_8465-688x386.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8454.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-520 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8454-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Transamerica_8454\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8454-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8454-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Transamerica_8454-195x348.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-513 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SanFranciscoCA_8460_B&amp;W\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW-195x348.jpg 195w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SanFranciscoCA_8460_BW-688x1224.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, who moved their U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company&#8217;s logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[156,161,145,159,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}