1970s

The main BART system was completed in the 1970s. New public opposition to enormous skyscrapers and the recently-formed Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board dampened the Financial District building boom of the late 1960s.

More 1970s buildings

Qantas Building 350 Post Street

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

1972
Rodeway Inn Downtown 895 Geary Street 1970
180 Montgomery Street 180 Montgomery Street

Corwin Booth

1978
Embarcadero Center

John Portman & Associates

1970
California First Bank Building 370 California Street

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1977
Union Bank Building 50 California Street

Welton Becket and Associates

1972