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Identifier: architectenginee1030sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN, SHELL BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOGeo. W. Kelham, Architect At the twenty-eighth floor large project-ing bowls play shadows across the pier sur-faces below, serving not only to foil thestrong vertical lines of the building, but al-so by contrast to intensify the interest in its crown are three niches, the upper portions-of which form shells. Stabilized by thebowls below, they serve alike as symbolismand to unify the terminals. The bold surface of the sepia-tinted terra July, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 37 ■cotta, covered with innumberable facets, bright metal to reflect the rays as if theylends unusual strength to the ornament, were thrones of sunlight. The whimsical•Of Egyptian ancestry with a modernistic changes of decoration wrought by the play
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TWENTIETH FLOOR PLAN, SHELL BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOGeo. W. Kelhara, Architect flare, this has been designed to respond, withhighlight, shade and shadow, to the move-ment of the sun in a manner that suggeststhe artifice of the ancients who sheathedthe pyramidions of their monuments in of light on the satin-textured surfaces giverest to the eye and pleasure to the senses. From the street, attention is caught bythe strong line at the third-floor belt coursewhich defines the pedestal of the tall shaft. 38 AflCHlT^CJ AND ENGINEER July, 1930

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