450 Sutter (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California / Sutter Street, 450
 office building, interesting place
450sutter.com/

San Francisco, CA 94108
1929 Art Deco, ornate lobby, 26 floors
- Opened as the Medical-Dental Office Building.
- The thin-skinned exterior is Mayan-ornamented spandrels alternating with windows, many that wrap around the building's corners.
- Built without setbacks the design signaled the approach of 1950's modernism.
- Considered one of the great office lobbies in America with its ancient world gilded Mayan Temple design and its strikingly rich exotic bas relief wall carvings.
- Gun metal grey and golden hieroglyphs accent building as highlighted in many architecture books.
- Little known fact: One of the city's five tallest buildings from the late 20's to the early 60's.

In this building

  1. Sutter Street Cafe
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450_Sutter_Street
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Coordinates:   37°47'22"N   122°24'28"W

Comments

  • Also commonly known as "450 Suffer", because of the large number of dentists in the building.
  • I believe this building was designed by Timothy Pflueger.
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