Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - research structures - laboratories

Designers: McCue Boone Tomsick (MBT) Associates, Architects (firm); David Charles Boone (architect); Gerald Mallon McCue (architect); Frank Tomsick (architect)

Dates: constructed 1966-1967

6 stories

576 Standard Avenue
Richmond, CA 94806

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Building Notes

This research laboratory for Chevron (known formerly as the Standard Oil Company of California) won many design awards and was highly published in the late 1960s. It won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1967. Historians Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss, in their 1985 Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, wrote of the Chevron Richmond Research Laboratory: "This six-story concrete structure stands out against the chemistry set clutter of the refinery. The building is a 1968 A.I.A. Honor Award design that derives its articulate form by expressing the laboratory services on the exterior of the building." (See David Gebhard, Robert Winter and Eric Sandweiss, The Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, [Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Incorporated, 1985, p. 239.)

PCAD id: 11053