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Despite planning a total of seven buildings for downtown Honolulu, HI, Louis Christian Mullgardt succeeded in erecting only one, the Theo H. Davies Building; this was a warehouse with four stories, occupying a whole city block. The design of the Davies Block was unconventional, resembling in its strictly coursed floors, an Italian Renaissance palazzo. According to architectural historian Robert Jay: "Mullgardt had had little previous experience with large commercial projects of this sort, which perhaps explains his highly unusual approach to the construction of the Davies Building. The entire structure was in poured concrete without a structural steel frame. In fact, for years it remained the largest unitary concrete structure in the world." (See The Architecture of Charles W. Dickey, [Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1992], p. 106.) The Davies Building's very unusual design reflected the building's lack of steel framing; each facade displayed extensive wall mass made more apparent by the quick, lively syncopation of thin, projecting "clinker" blocks within the coursed ashlar pattern. Windows and wall spans, lacking steel reinforcement, had to remain narrow.

Demolished;

PCAD id: 1319