Café Zoetrope and Transamerica Pyramid

Café Zoetrope and the Transamerica Pyramid, in San Francisco

Along Columbus Avenue, you discover Café Zoetrope and you admire the silhouette of the Transamerica Pyramid. The San Francisco audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this café linked to cinema and the emblematic pyramidal skyscraper.

The cinema café and the pyramidal skyscraper

Columbus Avenue, the only great diagonal of the district, is the best place to observe the Transamerica Pyramid, more elegant seen in profile than from the front. This skyscraper with a pyramidal shape, one of the most recognisable of the skyline of San Francisco, marks the financial district. At the corner stands a triangular flatiron building, which shelters Café Zoetrope, linked to the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Between audacious architecture and the universe of the seventh art, this place blends the history of the town, its creative energy and the charm of its emblematic skyscrapers.

What to see

You admire the silhouette of the Transamerica Pyramid, one of the most recognisable skyscrapers of the town, and the triangular flatiron building sheltering Café Zoetrope, linked to Coppola, along Columbus Avenue. This place blends audacious architecture and cinema. It is a stop for those curious about architecture, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Transamerica Pyramid and Café Zoetrope lie along Columbus Avenue, in the financial district of San Francisco, reachable on foot. You admire the pyramid from the street; the café follows its own hours, which vary. It is best to enquire before coming.

What is the Transamerica Pyramid?

A skyscraper with a pyramidal shape, one of the most recognisable of the skyline of San Francisco, best admired in profile from Columbus Avenue, near Café Zoetrope linked to Coppola.

Where to admire the Transamerica Pyramid?

Along Columbus Avenue, in the financial district of San Francisco, in the United States.