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The Phelan Building is an 11-story office building located at 760 Market Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California.It has a triangular shape, similar to the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City, with its tip at the meeting point of Market Street, O’Farrell Street, and Grant Avenue.
The building was designed by the architecture firm Salfield and Kohlberg, named for architects David Salfield and Hermann Kohlberg. [3]Despite the 1907 finish, building work had begun before the San Francisco earthquake the previous year, but extensive damage to the building site, and the rest of the city, slowed down the construction considerably.
The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1972 to 2017, when it was surpassed by the under-construction Salesforce Tower. [16] It is one of 39 San Francisco high rises reported by the U.S. Geological Survey as potentially vulnerable to a large earthquake, due to a flawed welding technique. [17]
He was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) from 1961 to 1974; and served as the president of the San Francisco chapter from 1976 to 1977. [17] In 1989, he received the AIA San Francisco Chapter's highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award as well as HUD's Honor Award for Architectural Excellence, for projects in San ...
Timothy Ludwig Pflueger (September 26, 1892 – November 20, 1946) was an architect, interior designer and architectural lighting designer in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of the 20th century. [2]
Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco, California-based architecture firm, founded by Mark Cavagnero, FAIA in 1988. [1] The Firm's portfolio is of various public-serving projects for public, non-profit and institutional clients.
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He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937 with a bachelor's degree in architecture. [2] Esherick worked for San Francisco Bay Area architect Gardner Dailey, [2] and, about 1950, began his own practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] He taught at the University of California, Berkeley for many years. [2]