Glass Tower
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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. The lobby includes a large 16-story-high atrium (filmed at San Francisco's Hyatt Regency Embarcadero). 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 no less than 1500 feet (approximately 457 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.
