Hyatt Regency San Francisco
{{Short description|Hotel in California, United States}}
{{distinguish|Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox hotel
| hotel_name = Hyatt Regency San Francisco
| logo =
| logo_width =
| image = Hyatt Regency San Francisco (110103874).jpg
| caption = Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 2021
| location = United States
| pushpin_map = United States San Francisco Central#California#USA
| address = Five Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California
| chain = Global Hyatt Corporation
| coordinates = {{coord|37.79432|-122.39584|region:US-CA_type:landmark|display=title,inline}}
| opening_date = 1973
| developer = Trammell Crow
David Rockefeller
John C. Portman Jr.
| architect = John Portman & Associates
| operator = Hyatt Hotels Corporation
| owner = Sunstone Hotel Investors
| number_of_rooms = 804
| number_of_suites = Balcony Suite
Embarcadero Suite
| number_of_restaurants= 2
| floor_area = {{convert|863400|sqft|abbr=on}}
| floors = 20
| height = {{convert|77|m|abbr=on}}
| parking =
| website = https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/california/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/sfors
| footnotes = {{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118752 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183452/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118752 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 118752 |work=Emporis}}{{SkyscraperPage|34877}}{{Structurae|20021850}}
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco is a hotel located at the foot of Market Street and The Embarcadero in the financial district of San Francisco, California. The hotel is a part of the Embarcadero Center development by Trammell Crow, David Rockefeller, and John Portman.
History
The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King has described the 1973 building as a "temple of hermetic urbanism" in a "self-contained sci-fi" style that by 2016 had become "dated", albeit remaining "still visually dazzling, in a futuristic sort of way."{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sci-fi-hotel-goes-from-daring-to-dated-in-43-years-6794574.php?t=10bbea7aaa3e72cb18|title=Sci-fi hotel goes from daring to dated in 43 years|last=King|first=John|date=2016-01-29|website=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=2016-04-11}} The Regency Club Lounge was once the Equinox, a rooftop revolving restaurant, but is now an elite club for certain hotel guests offering 360-degree views of the city and the bay. The atrium holds the Guinness world record (as of 2024) for the largest hotel lobby, with a length of 107 meters, width of 49 meters and height of 52 meters (15 stories).{{Cite web|url=http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/22-travel-world-records-039346/|title=Guinness World Records 2012: Travel records|last=Knowles|first=Bija|date=2011-09-15|website=travel.cnn.com|access-date=2016-04-11}}
The hotel has a large modernist sculpture Eclipse, by Charles O Perry that sits in the lobby.{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Charles O. Perry Dies at 81; Sculptor Inspired by Geometry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/design/11perry.html |access-date=21 September 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=11 February 2011}}
The hotel was sold by Strategic Hotel Capital LLC, in January 2007 for close to {{US$|200 million}} to Dune Capital Management and DiNapoli Capital Partners – roughly $250,000 for each of the hotel's 802 rooms.{{cite news | author=Ryan Tate | title=S.F. Hyatt Regency sells for $200M | url=http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/01/08/daily3.html | work=San Francisco Business Times | date=January 8, 2007 | accessdate=February 1, 2010}} In December 2013, the hotel was purchased by Aliso-Viejo, CA-based Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., for $262M.{{Cite news |title= Sunstone Seals $262M Deal For San Francisco Hyatt Hotel |publisher= Law360.com |url= http://www.law360.com/articles/493000/sunstone-seals-262m-deal-for-san-francisco-hyatt-hotel |date=December 3, 2013 |accessdate= October 7, 2015}}
In popular culture
The Hyatt Regency's atrium lobby served as the lobby of the Glass Tower in 1974's The Towering Inferno. Replicas of John Portman's trademark pill-shaped elevators were built for use in the film and are featured throughout, including in an extended sequence where one is lifted from the stricken tower by helicopter. The hotel was also featured in the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, the 1977 spy film Telefon, and the 1979 romantic thriller 1979 Time After Time.
As well as being a setting for numerous films, the lobby is itself inspired by a film. Architect John Portman has stated that its design was suggested to him by viewing the 1935 science fiction film Things to Come.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal | last=Doar | first=D.| title=L'hôtel "Hyatt Regency" à San Francisco (Etats-Unis) | journal=Acier = Stahl = Steel | volume= 39 | publisher=Centre Belgo-Luxembourgeois d’Information de l’Acier | pages=199–205 | language=fr |date=May 1974}}
External links
{{Commons}}
- [https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/california/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/sfors Hyatt Regency San Francisco official website]
Category:Skyscraper hotels in San Francisco
Category:Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
Category:Market Street (San Francisco)
Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1973
Category:Hotels established in 1973