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Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA (firm); Edward Charles Bassett (architect); John Ogden Merrill (architect); Nathaniel Alexander Owings (architect); Louis Skidmore Sr. (architect)
Dates: [unspecified]
Building History
Architect Chuck Bassett of Skidmore Owings and Merrill's San Francisco Office designed this 33-story office building with walls of pre-cast reinforced-concrete. About 1,870 precast white concrete panels lined the exterior of this skyscraper. (See "New beauty in structures with use of white cement," American Journal of Building Design, vol. 2, no. 3, 02/1966, p. 23.)
PCAD id: 5844
