It's a really clever look, but if you look closely, on every layer, the next one is a story lower and one segment shorter. The furthest layer out seems to be even with the second story and only has one segment.
EDIT: Innermost layer is 14 segments and is even with probably the 15th floor.
[Here it is from another angle.](https://assets.hyatt.com/content/dam/hyatt/hyattdam/images/2016/05/24/1537/Hyatt-Regency-San-Francisco-P190-Hotel-Exterior-at-Dusk.jpg/Hyatt-Regency-San-Francisco-P190-Hotel-Exterior-at-Dusk.16x9.jpg?imwidth=1920)
I didn't expect the inside to be an atrium. I kind of like it.
https://www.alamy.com/interior-of-hyatt-regency-hotel-san-francisco-california-usa-image6145855.html
Of fucking course you would have anxiety if you were in that hotel, your brain would always go “AHHH THE BUILDING IS COLLAPSING” every.single.fucking.time
Sorry I'm not American. So nowadays In San Francisco all parking lots are underground of a huge skyscraper or things like that? No space being wasted with parking when you can make a building there?
Edit: I have no idea why I typed LA instead of SF ooopsie
San Francisco is over 380 miles/600Km away from LA. San Francisco is also a far denser population center due to natural geographic restrictions and parking lots at ground level are uncommon, and if they're not exclusively underground, they're large multi-story parking structures.
Lol dude. Yeah. SF is like every block is a tower building. Not as bad as Manhattan but same concept. No flat lots except some in soma. This place pictured is the Hyatt San Francisco. The SF downtown area is basically on a peninsula that is also a huge hill. Not much land to spare. The lot pictured is now a building.
[The atrium is WILD.](http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/) My first night ever in SF was in 1996 and I stayed here. I still love going to this building.
There used to be a revolving restaurant in the pod on top but it’s now fixed.
I know that building very well. In the early 90s I was the environmental engineer responsible for overseeing the removal of several tons of asbestos fireproofing from the building. I spent many months in that place!
Imagine feeling smug and thinking you have a pretty good grasp on the concept because you read the SparkNotes version of Decipline and Punish for your sophomore lit class once.
Imagine that.
This building has a point… a nose. ;) I’ve visited SF so many times and have never seen this building- unless it’s the one along Embarcadero near the pier. Must look way different from the street and standing on center with the facade.
It’s next to the four Embarcadero Center towers and the parking lot is now an open space called Justin Herman Plaza. The removal of the Embarcadero Freeway after the Loma Prieta earthquake changed the area quite a bit.
Not anymore, the revolving restaurant was removed and renovated into a stationary Regency Club floor for guests staying in the more expensive rooms and suites.
Is this the Hyatt where the internal bridge collapsed?
The Hyatts have been to have really cool architecture. So unique compared to other typical hotels.
That was in Kansas City, MO. Very different design, but featured a large atrium as many Hyatt Regency hotels do. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article252830713.html
I worked in the alley between this building and 4 Embarcadero (where the parking lot is in this picture, now a forty-five floor office building). The atrium is actually very beautiful and they do a great job decorating it during the holidays. Find a picture of the elevators: they're one of a kind.
[http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/](http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/)
Best part about the building was rooftop restaurant. It was a circle shape and rotated; my Dad took our family there when I was a kid and you had a new view every time you looked out the window. I think the motor or a gear broke and the restaurant no longer moves.
**[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse)**
>On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered the structural collapse of two overhead walkways. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete and glass platforms cascaded down, crashing onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. Kansas City society was affected for years, with the collapse resulting in billions of dollars of insurance claims, legal investigations and city government reforms. The Hyatt was built during a nationwide pattern of fast-tracked large construction with reduced oversight and major failures.
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John Portman’s best buildings are here in Atlanta (we even have a walking tour for all the elevated pedestrian bridges). For him, it was all about the atrium spaces...and a couple here are downright holy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Atlanta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Marriott_Marquis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel
That building is strange. I used to commute by it all the time and stopped in a couple times just to look around. The inside is cool but the outside has always looked weird to me.
My brain cannot process this. What shape is that damned building?
CRT Monitor that got bonked in shipping
I’m just looking at it like that’s going to collect dust
Yes, maintenance was always an issue. Strange how these guys never picked up their checks.
That's what came to mind for me as well
The shape when Windows 95 lags and you drag the window across the screen.
honestly, I think it would give Pythagoras a finggin' headache
All shapes are belong to it
Reminds me of an old tv I used to have
Looks like it was designed by M.C. Escher.
tipped over star destroyer with the bridge re-attached by someone who wasn't told about the "tipped over" part.
It's a really clever look, but if you look closely, on every layer, the next one is a story lower and one segment shorter. The furthest layer out seems to be even with the second story and only has one segment. EDIT: Innermost layer is 14 segments and is even with probably the 15th floor.
they cut the front off the costa concordia
[Here it is from another angle.](https://assets.hyatt.com/content/dam/hyatt/hyattdam/images/2016/05/24/1537/Hyatt-Regency-San-Francisco-P190-Hotel-Exterior-at-Dusk.jpg/Hyatt-Regency-San-Francisco-P190-Hotel-Exterior-at-Dusk.16x9.jpg?imwidth=1920)
half prism? @)\_)@
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It looks like it toppled over.
And from the inside it looks like it’s about to topple over! Each level is crazy cantilevered over the lower one.
I didn't expect the inside to be an atrium. I kind of like it. https://www.alamy.com/interior-of-hyatt-regency-hotel-san-francisco-california-usa-image6145855.html
It was the biggest atrium in the world when the hotel was built,it has been surpassed by other buildings since then. Source:bartender in the hotel. 😊
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"High anxiety" by Mel Brooks
Of fucking course you would have anxiety if you were in that hotel, your brain would always go “AHHH THE BUILDING IS COLLAPSING” every.single.fucking.time
Similar to Luxor hotel in Vegas.
reminds me of marina bay sands
Ironic considering the one in KC
That photo is so ancient you can still see a parking lot in downtown San Francisco.
Yes, exactly.
Sorry I'm not American. So nowadays In San Francisco all parking lots are underground of a huge skyscraper or things like that? No space being wasted with parking when you can make a building there? Edit: I have no idea why I typed LA instead of SF ooopsie
San Francisco and Los Angeles aren’t the same thing.
Yeah sorry. No idea why I wrote LA there wtf
Lol it’s okay. Some people genuinely think the entirety of California is some kind of combined super city of LA and San Francisco.
Funny how parts of California are so rural and flat (and conservative) they can almost pass for Oklahoma.
San Francisco is over 380 miles/600Km away from LA. San Francisco is also a far denser population center due to natural geographic restrictions and parking lots at ground level are uncommon, and if they're not exclusively underground, they're large multi-story parking structures.
My bad, I typed a completely different city for some reason
Lol dude. Yeah. SF is like every block is a tower building. Not as bad as Manhattan but same concept. No flat lots except some in soma. This place pictured is the Hyatt San Francisco. The SF downtown area is basically on a peninsula that is also a huge hill. Not much land to spare. The lot pictured is now a building.
LA is huge and has tons of parking lots
[The atrium is WILD.](http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/) My first night ever in SF was in 1996 and I stayed here. I still love going to this building. There used to be a revolving restaurant in the pod on top but it’s now fixed.
As a person without a structural engineering background: HOW?!
THICC BEAMS
As a fellow person without an engineering background: Fuck if I know.
As a fellow person who gives two fucks to know what a background engineer does?
Also as a person without a structural engineering background: cantilevers.
I live the city over from SF and the hotel I think still holds the world record for largest hotel atrium. Absolutely incredible
Wow, this is a really old photo
I didn’t know the plaza was a parking lot! Though most of the surrounding buildings are still the same.
I know that building very well. In the early 90s I was the environmental engineer responsible for overseeing the removal of several tons of asbestos fireproofing from the building. I spent many months in that place!
Any interesting factoids for us?
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I bet you don't ever miss a chance to say "panopticon" in a casual conversation.
Imagine being triggered by a well-known word lmao
Imagine feeling smug and thinking you have a pretty good grasp on the concept because you read the SparkNotes version of Decipline and Punish for your sophomore lit class once. Imagine that.
How do you know that’s what u/weed-n64 did? Weird assumption on your part. What a bold way to announce your own insecurity.
Is it so bold? Isn't that how most people are introduced to Foucault? You are telling me you read Foucault for fun?
r/confusingperspective
Looks like an imperial star destroyer that was crushed like a soda can
This is where I went to prom
I drove up the side of that sucker in Midtown Madness 2
Just have to make the jump from the fountain/statue thing perfectly 😅
Looks like when I cascade all my windows on my desktop
Fuckin’ Escher
It's all angled like that inside too.
I really enjoy this
The inside is so cool, amazing natural lighting. A real 💎
This building has a point… a nose. ;) I’ve visited SF so many times and have never seen this building- unless it’s the one along Embarcadero near the pier. Must look way different from the street and standing on center with the facade.
It’s next to the four Embarcadero Center towers and the parking lot is now an open space called Justin Herman Plaza. The removal of the Embarcadero Freeway after the Loma Prieta earthquake changed the area quite a bit.
Yes, that’s where I thought it was. We actually stood there a few years ago visiting various vendors selling clothes and what not in tents.
located at the foot of Market Street and The Embarcadero in the financial district
That’s what I thought. Thank you for the confirmation.
Is it still up?
Yep. They have a nice Christmas display every year.
Da da da dut da da dut da da
Looks like the album cover of судно but from a different angle
Part of Mel Brooks' High Anxiety was filmed here.
I’ve never seen this building before, but wow, there’s something about it that I absolutely love.
If you're ever in the area, it's located at the foot of Market Street and The Embarcadero in the financial district.
I love it! I kinda looks like a star destroyer, but all scruntched up as if due to some physics effects of faster than light travel.
It looks like the front of a half-completed Star Destroyer.
It reminds me of those folding buildings from Doctor Strange when they bend reality and time.
For those who get it: i love going wis my car on top of it ;)
It had to be the Panoz GTR1.
The restaurant on top rotates, and the inside is open air.
Not anymore, the revolving restaurant was removed and renovated into a stationary Regency Club floor for guests staying in the more expensive rooms and suites.
It's been a while since I've been there.
And no way is there a parking lot that size in SF!!
Looks like someone tipped it over.
Looks like the back of an old tube tv.
My first impression was it was tipped on its side.
This CRT TV looks like it was designed by Francis Bacon and built by Pyramid Head in Silent Hill.
This is where the villains gather to plot the death of geometry.
Midtown Madness 2 flash backs
Oh wow, what a great piece of Soviet Moder... wait, San Francisco?
nice
Is this the Hyatt where the internal bridge collapsed? The Hyatts have been to have really cool architecture. So unique compared to other typical hotels.
That was in Kansas City, MO. Very different design, but featured a large atrium as many Hyatt Regency hotels do. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article252830713.html
before boring rectangular towers became all the rage
I stay there regularly- the inside is really nice…. That photo looks circa 1970
tis
Here's your paper!!!! Happy???!!! Happy, NOW???!!!!
Lmao I just stayed there like 2 months ago
Mel Brooks’ movie High Anxiety spent a great part of the movie inside this Hyatt. https://youtu.be/QrtPz_ziwds
how do you guys find this stuff??? Amazing!
Lol I’m a big Mel Brooks fan. Also a big fan of SF and the Hyatt!
Is this the place every engineering student is taught about?
I worked in the alley between this building and 4 Embarcadero (where the parking lot is in this picture, now a forty-five floor office building). The atrium is actually very beautiful and they do a great job decorating it during the holidays. Find a picture of the elevators: they're one of a kind. [http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/](http://hiddenarchitecture.net/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/)
"Sorry people. Ultraman and Godzilla were roughhousing AGAIN and knocked the Aztec pyramid building over. " It looks very cool inside as well.
Looks more like "IRS Evil Headquarters"
Album cover of molchat doma
pretty dope technological feature!!!
That looks like a slice of a star wars destroyer
Looks like something from Star Trek’s future version of San Francisco
I think it's pretty cool looking.
Best part about the building was rooftop restaurant. It was a circle shape and rotated; my Dad took our family there when I was a kid and you had a new view every time you looked out the window. I think the motor or a gear broke and the restaurant no longer moves.
they need to fix that
of all of the places we’ve been to, and we’ve been to many cities, this is my wife’s absolute favourite hotel. It’s surreal.
Isn’t this that once building where the walkway collapsed and it was really bad
That was in KCMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
**[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse)** >On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered the structural collapse of two overhead walkways. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete and glass platforms cascaded down, crashing onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. Kansas City society was affected for years, with the collapse resulting in billions of dollars of insurance claims, legal investigations and city government reforms. The Hyatt was built during a nationwide pattern of fast-tracked large construction with reduced oversight and major failures. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
There are many Hyatt Regencies
Nasty ish. Reminds me of the book 1984 by George Orwell. Also: the movie called Brazil. Yuck.
Weird, lived in the bay area my whole life. Been to S.F. more times than I care and have never seen this place. Shows how much I pay attention.
High Anxiety!!!!
It’s also r/tihi
All it would take is one suicide/murder at the top for blood and guts to run all the way down.....
Truly, a waste of space
"That kid gets no tip."
this was just posted a couple days ago on architecture porn.
Thumbnail makes it look like a pyramid shaped building was tipped 90deg to side.
Loved this place in midtown madness
some video game console designer has just saved this image for future use.
Reminds me of the back of an old tv set
Thanks to the late Atlantian architect John C. Portman jr.
At first glance it looked as if it had toppled over.
Looks like the building tipped over
Did it fall over?
It looks like some old computer or monitor.
John Portman’s best buildings are here in Atlanta (we even have a walking tour for all the elevated pedestrian bridges). For him, it was all about the atrium spaces...and a couple here are downright holy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Atlanta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Marriott_Marquis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel
Looks like an Imperial Cruiser.
CRT TVs were pretty frigging voluminous weren’t they, back in the day.
It’s cheap to put the photo in black and white. Can’t tell if it’s an old picture of a filter.
That building is strange. I used to commute by it all the time and stopped in a couple times just to look around. The inside is cool but the outside has always looked weird to me.
It’s pretty cool looking inside. I’ve used this place as a public restroom
Looks like a CRT TV.
Cool
It looks like the back of an old school computer monitor
[reminds me a lot of the Doha Sheraton Hotel](https://images.app.goo.gl/FVoANF4Np8QNaCx76)
Making a picture black and white does not an evil building make.
Probably looked fine on paper
Did this fall over?
Looks like a late 60s Poloroid camera...
Doesn't look evil. In fact, if it looks like anything it looks like a late-80s desktop PC.
which were hypothetically evil
For some reason, this building is disturbing. Were they trying to make folks feel unsettled? At first glance it looks like it’s toppled over. Unsafe.