Above a chocolate-colored Italian marble base, this fifty-four-story tower, which the architects likened to a craggy mountain, has a brown precast cement skin with vertical window bays that step back to profile a pair of interlocked octagons at the pinnacle. An
City Center Tower
1984, Metz, Train and Youngman. 1801–1863 California St., to Stout St. between 18th and 19th sts.