Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
333 Bush Street
333 Bush Street
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
333 Bush Street is located between Montgomery and Kearny streets in the Financial District of San Francisco within a close proximity to Union Square. The property improvements include a 43 story, multiple use building containing 542,743 square feet of rentable office space (30 stories), seven stories of separately owned residential condominium space, two mechanical levels, one retail level and two basement levels.
The building facade includes spandrel and column panels of rose colored polished granite. Tinted window systems are provided between spandrel and column panels with single glazed windows. Finished ceiling height at the tenant spaces is eight feet, nine inches. Office areas are typically column free between the core area walls and the windows. The main lobby is finished off in white marble with a ceiling height of sixty-eight feet and reaches to the bottom of the seventh floor.
Note: Reflects the 'deconstructionist' architecture of the 1980's
Crown Zellerbach Building
Crown Zellebach Building (1959)
1 Bush Street
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Shimmering surfaces constitute the best glass curtain wall in San Francisco, whose concept was created by Walter Netsch and executed by Chuck Bassett. Two functionally slabs make up the highrise, an opaque cube for circulations, and for the offices , a set of stacked lofts. Think steel mullions frame the green-tinted-for heat absorption--curtain wall. The one-story, diamond-shaped glass hall at the southwest corner of the site brilliantly do not fully occupy their wedge-shaped site; instead, they are irregularly situated in a garden and plaza. The ground plane is further complicated by opening up the base of the steel column grid and depressing part of the plaza beneath the street level