The Shell Building is an office tower in the
Financial District
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of
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
,
California
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. The 28-story, , building is located at 100 Bush Street, at Battery Street. It was designed by
George W. Kelham
George William Kelham (1871–1936) was an American architect, he was most active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Biography
Born in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, Manchester, Massachusetts, Kelham was educated at Harvard University and g ...
and built in 1929, in the architectural style of
Gothic Moderne,
Moderne and
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
.
Overview
Shell USA
Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation " oil major" which is among the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 18,0 ...
occupied the building until the 1960s. There are castings of shells that decorate the
cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative Moulding (decorative), moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, ar ...
on the upper levels as well as shell designs in the lobby floor and decorative grill at the front of the building.
A renovation by
Heller Manus Architects won the San Francisco Architectural Heritage Award in 1994.
Shell Building Renovation
. Heller Manus Architects. Accessed 25 March 2021.
See also
*Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design
Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design, also called the Saarinen tower, was an unbuilt design for a skyscraper by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. It was submitted in 1922 for the architectural competition organized by the ''Chicago Tribune'' for ...
*List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
San Francisco, California, in the United States, has at least 482 high-rises, 58 of which are at least tall. The tallest building is Salesforce Tower, which rises and is the List of tallest buildings in the United States, 17th-tallest buildin ...
References
External links
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Office buildings completed in 1929
Skyscraper office buildings in San Francisco
Shell plc buildings and structures
Art Deco architecture in California
Financial District, San Francisco
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