AKA: One Bush Plaza Building, San Francisco, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Brunnier, H.J. , Associates, Structural Engineers (firm); Haas and Haynie, General Contractors (firm); Hertzka and Knowles, Architects (firm); Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA (firm); Edward Charles Bassett (architect); Haas (building contractor); Haynie (building contractor); Wayne Solomon Hertzka (architect); William Howard Knowles (architect); John Ogden Merrill (architect); Nathaniel Alexander Owings (architect); Louis Skidmore Sr. (architect)
Dates: constructed 1959
20 stories
Charles Chuck Bassett and Hertzka and Knowles designed the building to be 94 m (308 feet) high with 20 stories; the architects chose to separate the elevator, stair, and utilities shafts from the office portion of the tower, similar to the parti used by SOM Chicago at the Inland Steel Building one year before;
PCAD id: 3637