That pointy building in San Francisco that’s said to be earthquake resistant? I’ve parachuted off the top of it many times in GTA San Andreas while trying to evade the police. At 42-stories tall, it was the city’s tallest building from its construction in 1972 until the Salesforce Tower was completed in 2018.
However, the building was designed that way to allow light down to the street below, like how the Art Deco skyscrapers of New York City are stepped back. It’s actually one of several dozen buildings in the city marked as vulnerable to earthquakes by the US Geological Survey.
The site itself used to be the location of the Bank of Italy, founded by Amide Pietro Gianni until the 1906 earthquake destroyed it. Gianni founded Transamerica Corporation and the bank became Bank of America after it merged with a smaller Los Angeles bank of the same name.
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