345 California Center is a skyscraper at 345 California Street in the financial district of San Francisco. It was completed in 1986 at a cost of $83 million. The developer was Norland Properties, led by Hany Ben-Halim, and the architect and structural engineer was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was originally planned as condominiums.
The tower has 48 floors and rises 695 feet (212 meters). It has twin hotel towers set at 45-degree angles to the main building, joined by glass skybridges with views of the bay. It has been nicknamed the Stun Gun Towers and the Tweezer Towers.
Floors 38 to 48 hold the Four Seasons Hotel. Floors 4 to 36 are offices, and the lower floors hold shops and restaurants. It is the fifth tallest building in San Francisco when counting spires.
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