#transamerica tower

[bobcronkphotography]

Transamerica Pyramid

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

[humanoidhistory]

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, 1972. Photo by Werner Catrina. (ETH Library)

[tare-otome]

Sights Around Isle of Spires 5/?

Transamerica Pyramid

^ Lol camera clipping and LoDs 😅

Time lapse view of the Transamerica Pyramid. I had no idea what horrors we would find underneath...

[rabbitcruiser]

The City of San Francisco was incorporated on April 15, 1850.

[blech]

SF Yimby, in their story on the Transamerica Pyramid, featuring an earlier design by architects William L. Pereira & Associates:

The unbuilt ABC Tower in New York early study of elevator travel times, illustration by William L Pereira & Associates courtesy the USC Library

[justsomeguycore]

girlfriends btw

[dlyarchitecture]

[ja-lin]

Lovestruck in-game VS real life photography, San Francisco as seen in Villainous Nights and other series.

Union Square Events take place here and there's an ice skating rink in the winter months. The ice skating rink scene from Duke's route is one of my favorites. And iirc, he also proposed here to the MC.

333 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94108

Dolores Park A lot of characters had scenes here! I still remember the scene that took place at night, where Andi took off her mask to kiss MC. (Ok, but the one that killed me the most was that scene with young Renzei from Razi's route.) From this park you can get a very good view of the San Francisco skyline.

Dolores St &, 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Bay View Another popular spot for scenes in the series. The best view is at Pier 7 along the Embarcadero. You'll see the iconic lamp posts and benches. There was a heart felt scene that took place here from Renzei's route at nighttime.

Pier 7, The Embarcadero. San Francisco, CA 94199

Downtown I couldn't get the exact location like the one in-game, but there's a really nice similar spot at the intersection of Powell St and California St that a lot of photographers go to because it's up a big hill. If you stand in the middle of the crosswalk on Powell you can get a good view of the city. Instead of Optimus tower, you'll see the iconic triangle shape Transamerica tower.

intersection of Powell St and California St

Optimus The tower which Optimus is inspired by is actually the Salesforce Tower. You can walk around the plaza and transit center nearby, but obviously can't go up to the offices. But, I'm guessing the design of Optimus' interior might have been inspired by the Salesforce transit center.

425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105

[descendant-of-truth]

I absolutely hate when people use Tom's line "time for me to abuse the power entrusted to me" to put him in a negative light because they either ignore or miss the point of the context in that scene: Tom only uses the false pretense of saving a jumper to gain the needed clearance to travel to the Transamerica Pyramid's tower roof so Sonic can get his rings and escape from a madman trying to kill him

Yeah, it's basically a microcosm of what I was talking about in my last post; people seem to ignore the actual writing in these movies for the sake of making Tom out to be a bad person

And it's not that I don't think there's any room for criticism in the decision to make him a police officer in the first place, but I feel like the reaction to him is sometimes disproportionately harsh

Especially since, as I've mentioned a while back, Brooklyn 99 is one of the most popular sitcoms right now. Like, we use quotes from it as regular vernacular on here. Literally every main character in that show is a cop but I don't see people hating them for being positive (or at least likeable) portrayals of the police

Granted I don't know what the exact crossover is between people who like Brooklyn 99 and people who don't like Tom, but it does kind of irk me when people are like "oh yeah the movies are great except for one of the central characters whose bond with Sonic is the driving force of the first film"

[adamburt1984]

My Favourite American Things 🇺🇸

Superheroes/Comic Books Characters

(Like the Shield)

Spyro the dragons, Sparx the Dragonfly, and characters I like from Spyro the dragon games and Spyro the Dragons series (They’re invited/made in US)

Dr Pepper

Liberty Bell

Cloud Gate/Bean

Gateway Arch

Mothman Statue

Hot Dogs

KFC

Little Red Lighthouse (New York)

Empire State Building and Chrysler Building

Brookyln Bridge

One World Trade Center

Seattle Tower/Space Needle

Golden Gate Bridge

Peace Pagoda

Dragon Gate and Guardian Lion statues

Willis Tower

Delicate Arch

Mounment Valley

The Capitol Building

The Alamo

American Pizza

Burgers and fries

Wendys (lady/mascot)

Netflix

Star Wars (and characters and veichles I like)

Hot Wheels 

Sox (Disney/Pixar Lightyear)

Chatters Telephones

Alcatraz Island

Transamerica Pyramid

Conan O'Brien

Dean Cain

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan

Abraham Lincoln

Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Slinky dog and Green Army Soldiers and RC car

[bobcronkphotography]

San Francisco, The City

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

[humanoidhistory]

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, 1972. Photo by Werner Catrina. (ETH Library)

[tare-otome]

Sights Around Isle of Spires 1/?

I finally finally let myself venture to the island i had been simultaneously longing for and dreading the entire game. So many familiar haunts...

Right away i could see i was near the ruins of Sutro Tower...

In the distance of the gloom i could see the silhouette of a submerged Tallneck...

Peering from around some trees and ruins i could see the Transamerica Pyramid...

[toweringfiction]

Tower-ing Fiction #23: Starfleet Headquarters, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Starfleet Headquarters, depicted across many of the Star Trek feature films and some of the franchise’s series, is typically located in San Francisco, adjoining either side of the Golden Gate Bridge. often occupying the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and/or the Presidio. In the Kelvin Universe films—Star Trek (dir. JJ Abrams, 2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (dir. JJ Abrams, 2013), Star Trek Beyond (dir. Justin Lin, 2016)—Starfleet Headquarters and its various associated buildings are located just south of the Golden Gate Bridge, seemingly between the Presidio and Golden Gate Park, inset into a 2259 San Francisco skyline dominated by skyscrapers.

The main Starfleet Headquarters buildings are put on prime display during an establishing shot ahead of a nighttime attack.

Composed of three cylindrical towers, they appear to be forty or fifty stories tall, connected by a series of skybridges, set into a circular plaza at the intersection of a couple of major roads. One of the towers seems to be interestingly attached to the center column, with its base some twenty or so stories in the air. Moody lighting dominates, which will be contrasted with the flat daytime light in the morning after the attack that kills much of Starfleet command.

Designed by VFX house Pixomondo, the main Headquarters building’s odd design can be seen below:

The interiors combine various bureaucratic locations and stylings, combining real filming locations and sets that will be part of Khan’s attack on Starfleet command.

The actual command room overtly evokes the War Room from Dr. Strangelove (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1964), foreshadowing the film’s revelation that militarism is taking over the core functions of Starfleet.

Once the main action scene commences, John Harrison/Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch), in an assault ship, fires on the leadership of Starfleet command, while James T Kirk (Chris Pine) attempts to stop him from the connecting hallway. The framing of the exterior shots gives a nice view of the upper floors of two of the towers and the corridor between them, with stylized lighting and a layer of smoke.

As Kirk attempts to thwart Khan, the ship weaves back and forth, providing more shots of these upper floors.

Kirk is eventually successful, with Khan transporting away, leaving his ship to crash into slightly lower floors.

In the attack’s aftermath, we see various shots of the building still mostly intact, giving a sense of the plaza below and the damage done, with a spotlight highlighting where Kirk fought back from.

The next morning, we see the towers the aftermath, with the camera pan revealing the Golden Gate Bridge to the north.

In other scenes, we see the base of Starfleet Headquarters, including the rounded façades of its towers, along with attached buildings clad in stone and Starfleet logos.

Filmed at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, these plaza scenes don’t fully align with the digital Headquarters model, but establish the geography, with the bay and the rest of the city beyond, setting Kirk, Spock (Zachary Quinto), and Scotty (Simon Pegg) in the scene and helping match the digital and physical locations.

The other side of Starfleet Headquarters appears late in the film during Kirk’s closing speech, giving another look at the cylindrical components. Filmed in front of the Cultural Center of the Christ Cathedral (formerly the Crystal Cathedral) in Garden Grove, the curved forms and styles match those of the Getty quite well.

The rest of San Francisco in Star Trek Into Darkness is presented as a dense skyscraper-laden city, with skybridges and flying transports connecting the upper levels of these buildings, complementing the remaining street-level traffic. Iconic buildings like the Transamerica Pyramid (853’/260m) are complemented by even larger buildings, while the San Francisco Ferry Building is the anchor of some of the film’s nightlife.

Designed by ILM, the cityscape is quite elaborate, anchoring the film’s final act, in which Khan crashes a militarized Starfleet ship through the city, is chased by Spock at street level, leading to an extended fight sequences on a flying transport. This mostly presented against computer-generated buildings, though Khan does run through Creative Artists Agency Building and across South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles.

These street-level and aerial scenes are richly detailed, elaborating on the city around Starfleet Headquarters and the residents of San Francisco imperiled by Khan.

In the prior film, Starfleet Academy is also in San Francisco, with views of both the Golden Gate Bridge and the city proper.

Filmed at Oviatt Library of California State University, Northridge, though the bay and cityscape have been pasted in around it.

Note that this view of San Francisco (looking west?) also features the Transamerica Pyramid, though with a different cluster of buildings around it than its sequel.

In that film, another villain, Nero (Eric Bana) threatens the city (and planet), giving nice aerial views and unifying the geography when he deploys his main weapon.

[rabbitcruiser]

Father Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco on June 29, 1776.  

[justsomeguycore]

i think coit tower and the transamerica pyramid are girlfriends. transamerica is trans obviously