Shell Building (San Francisco)

Commercial offices in San Francisco, California

The Shell Building is an office tower in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 28-story, 115.22 m (378.0 ft), building is located at 100 Bush Street, at Battery Street. It was designed by George W. Kelham and built in 1929, in the architectural style of Gothic Moderne, Moderne and Art Deco.^[4]

Overview

Shell USA occupied the building until the 1960s. There are castings of shells that decorate the cornice on the upper levels as well as shell designs in the lobby floor and decorative grill at the front of the building.^[5][6]

A renovation by Heller Manus Architects won the San Francisco Architectural Heritage Award in 1994.^[7]

See also

• Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design
• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco

References

1. "Emporis building ID 118743". Emporis. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015.
2. "Shell Building". SkyscraperPage.
3. Shell Building at Structurae
4. Starr, Kevin (1996). Endangered Dreams, the Great Depression in San Francisco. Oxford: University Press. Retrieved 2010-01-20. endangered dreams.
5. John King (1 February 2009). "Cityscape: the Shell Building". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
6. Woodbridge, Sally B. (1992). San Francisco Architecture (Second ed.). San Francisco: Chronicle Books. pp. 32. ISBN 0-87701-897-9.
7. "Shell Building Renovation". Heller Manus Architects. Accessed 25 March 2021.

External links

Media related to Shell Building at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website