Glass Tower

"For the science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, see "Tower of Glass.

The Glass Tower is a fictional skyscraper featured in the 1974 Irwin Allen disaster film "The Towering Inferno". The tower is 138 stories tall and sheathed with large floor-to-ceiling gold-tinted windows; exterior columns are clad in gold-colored metal panels. Scenes set in front of the tower at street level were filmed at San Francisco's Bank of America Building, using both the plaza in front and the lower lobby. The upper lobby includes a large 16-story-high atrium, filmed at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel at Embarcadero Center. The remainder of the building was made up of sets and large-scale models. The distinctive bullet-shaped glass elevators at the Hyatt were replicated for the sets.

There are offices up to the 80th floor. Floors 81 to 120 are purely residential. The film never states what the purpose of floors 121 to 134 are, but the 135th floor features the 300 person capacity Promenade Deck ballroom, which affords a view of San Francisco from a height of 1800 feet (approximately 550 meters). The ballroom floor is serviced by two internal express elevators and 3 glass scenic elevators (although only one was functional at the time of the building's dedication). Floors 136 to 138 consist of machine rooms for the elevators and six massive water tanks which together hold one million gallons of water. The flat roof has a helipad.

ee also

*Skyscrapers in film

External links

* [http://www.skyscrapersim.com The Skyscraper Project - Open source building simulator]
* [http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8848 skyscraperpage.com diagram of the Glass Tower assuming Sears Tower floor to floor heights]