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The city of San Jose, California, known for its height-limited downtown skyline due to its proximity to San Jose International Airport, has over 46 high-rises, mostly in downtown. Twenty-seven buildings stand taller than 200 feet (61 m). San Jose is the most populous city in the U.S. with no buildings over 300 feet (91 m).
San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California. Located in Downtown San Jose, it was designed by Pritzker Prize -winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower, an iconic glass rotunda, and a city council chamber wing, laid out within a two-block-long public square ...
The 88. / 37.33472; -121.8872. The 88 is a 22- story, 87.2 m (286 ft) residential skyscraper in downtown San Jose, California. Upon completion of the tower in 2008, the tower became the tallest building in the city, surpassing the 86.9 m (285 ft) San Jose City Hall that was completed in 2005. [4]
The Art Deco Medico-Dental Building was built in 1928.. The town was first settled in 1777. The area that now makes up downtown was first settled twenty years later, when the town of San Jose moved somewhat inland from its original location on the banks of the Guadalupe River.
Fairmont Plaza. / 37.3336; -121.8892. Fairmont Plaza (previously the Knight-Ridder Building) is a 17-story, 79.55 m (261.0 ft) skyscraper in downtown San Jose, California. When completed in 1988, it was the tallest building in the city; it is currently the sixth. The building was designed by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architecture firm.
October 15, 1973. Designated CHISL. 1974. The Peralta Adobe ( Spanish: Adobe Peralta ), [ 3] also known as the Luis María Peralta Adobe or the Gonzales-Peralta Adobe, [ 4] is the oldest building in San Jose, California. [ 5] The adobe was built in 1797 by José Manuel Gonzeles, one of the founders of San Jose, and is named after Luis María ...
San Jose is located at 37°20′10″N121°53′26″W / 37.33611°N 121.89056°W. San Jose is located within the Santa Clara Valley, in the southern part of the Bay Area in Northern California. The northernmost portion of San Jose touches San Francisco Bay at Alviso, though most of the city lies away from the bayshore.
May 26, 1983. The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E. San Fernando Street to the south, S. Third Street to the east, and E. Santa Clara Street to the north, but also includes the south ...