It was the 75th tallest building in the United States upon completion, one foot taller than One Worldwide Plaza in New York City and just 1 foot shorter than the 68th tallest building in the US, which is also owned by Bank of America, the Bank of America Center in Houston, Texas at 780 ft (238 m), and just 2 feet shorter than the 67th tallest building in the US, 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey at 781 ft (238 m). Design was by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with architect Pietro Belluschi consulting structural engineering was by the San Francisco firm H. It is currently owned by Vornado Realty Trust and The Trump Organization.īackground Masayuki Nagare's sculpture Transcendence, locally referred to as Banker's Heart 555 California Street from street levelĬolloquially known as 'Triple Five' and/or 'Triple Nickel', 555 California Street was meant to display the wealth, power, and importance of Bank of America.

Completed in 1969, the tower was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the completion of the Transamerica Pyramid in 1972, and the world headquarters of Bank of America until the 1998 merger with NationsBank, when the company moved its headquarters to the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the fourth tallest building in the city as of February 2021, and in 2013 was the largest by floor area. Bank of America Center (the United States) Show map of the United States

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