Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Primarily identified with a wedge-shaped form that directs visitors into an open plaza by the bay, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco is a magnificent public congregational space by itself.

The Hyatt Regency San Francisco is an 802-room hotel sitting atop an 84,000-sqm lot, situated in the award-winning Embarcadero Center right beside the Justine Herman plaza. However, arguably its most redeeming element is the 17-story atrium that offers a dramatic space for people to gather adorned with hanging gardens. Because of its iconic form, the hotel was even featured in several films such as the 1974 movie “The Towering Inferno.” The same atrium also holds a Guinness World Record for the largest hotel lobby as of 2012.

Aside from an encompassing congregational space, the hotel also provides separate exhibition and conference space – with floor areas spanning over 6,225 sqm of meeting space. To complete its commercial and recreational floors, the remaining spaces feature a fitness center, library, lounge, and restaurants – all with convenient access to surrounding shops, sidewalk cafés, and landscaped promenades.

Once dubbed as the Equinox, its Regency Club Lounge used to be a revolving rooftop restaurant – which used to be the sole of its kind in the city. The 225-seat circulating structure used to complete one revolution per hour. Today, it functions as a stationary elite club that offers 360-degree panoramic views of the surrounding bay and city skylines.

Described as a “temple of hermetic urbanism” within a “self-contained sci-fi” setting, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco remains to be “visually dazzling,” in a somewhat futuristic way.