| Skyline of Sacramento | |
|---|---|
 Sacramento skyline on the Sacramento River with the Tower Bridge in 2023 | |
| Tallest building | Wells Fargo Center (1992) |
| Tallest building height | 423 ft (128.9 m) |
| Number of tall buildings | |
| Taller than 100 m (328 ft) | 10 |
| Number of tall buildings (feet) | |
| Taller than 200 ft (61 m) | 20 |
| Taller than 300 ft (91 m) | 13 |
Sacramento is the capital of the U.S state of California, with a metropolitan area population of 2.4 million. Sacramento has the largest skyline in the Central Valley of California, and one of the largest in Northern California, with a total of 20 buildings that exceed 200 feet (61 m) in height, 13 of which are taller than 300 ft (91 m). Despite this, Sacramento has a relatively short and small skyline for its population; none of the skyscrapers in Sacramento are in the hundred tallest buildings in California. The tallest building in the city is the Wells Fargo Center, an 30-story office building completed in 1992 to a height of 423 ft (129 m).
Contents
- History
- Cityscape
- Map of tallest buildings
- Tallest buildings
- Tallest under construction or proposed
- Under construction
- Proposed
- Timeline of tallest buildings
- References
As California's capital, many of Sacramento's tallest buildings serve as offices for government agencies, including the Cal/EPA Building for the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Tower for the California Natural Resources Agency, or as courthouse buildings, such as the Robert T. Matsui or Tani Cantil-Sakauye courthouses. The courthouses are next to each other. Residential high-rises are rare, and no fully residential buildings are taller than 200 feet (61 m). Almost all high-rises in the city are located in downtown, south of the American River and east of the Sacramento River. One notable tower, the CalSTRS building, sits across the Sacramento River in West Sacramento.
The history of skyscrapers in Sacramento began with the Citizen Hotel and the Elks Tower, both built in the 1920s. However, few high-rises were built in the city until the 1980s, avoiding the boom in office towers that took place in many major American cities in the previous decades. Sacramento tallest building remained the California State Capitol until the Renaissance Tower was built in 1989. Its title as the city's tallest building was quickly taken by Park Tower, and finally the Wells Fargo Center. Postmodernist architecture influenced the design of new skyscrapers during this period.
While construction slowed in the 2000s, the end of the decade would see the completion of Sacramento's second and third tallest building, the US Bank Tower and the Bank of the West Tower. Since 2010, the skyline has seen the addition of only three buildings taller than 200 ft (61 m). Two of them are the Natural Resources Tower and Tani Cantil-Sakauye courthouse. The other is the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in 2017, part of the Downtown Commons project that also involved the construction of the Golden 1 Center, an indoor arena. Sacramento has received several proposals for taller residential and office towers. However, many former proposals, most notably the Towers on Capitol Mall, were cancelled due to the Great Recession and higher construction costs. [1] [2]
