CROCKER GALLERIA

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Title	CROCKER GALLERIA
View	Frontal view down the galleria, looking south
Notes	commerce
Work Type	shopping mall arcade retail galleria
Style/Period	Modern
Creator Name	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Creator Nationality	American firm
Date.Creator Birth	1939
Major Design Aspects	linear multiple levels
Elements & Spatial Types	barrel-vaulted glass
Climate Type	desert
Country	United States of America
City	San Francisco
State/Province	CA
Architectural Material	steel, glass, granite (polished and thermal-finished granite)
Structural System	steel
Dates	1982
Century	20C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	11/30/1994
Subject Information	: 'This is a distinguished design, commendable for its sensitivity to both urban planning and preservation issues. The subtle play of light on the plaid pattern of polished and thermal-finished granite and the reflective, colored-glass windows change the tower's visual image during the course of the day. Next to the tower the pedestrian corridor through the barrel-vaulted Crocker Galleria is unfortunately interrupted by unsightly escalators. The roof garden created on the top of the old bank building's 1908 banking hall, designed by Willis Polk, is accessible from the upper level of the Galleria. It is a welcome, outdoor city room. The entrance to Montgomery Street is marked by another deconstructed bank building with a complicated history. The original Crocker Bank Building (37) (1908). When Crocker proposed a new world headquarters tower and galleria further west on Post Street, the city provided air space in exchange for the demolition of the upper floors of the building at 1 Montgomery. The banking temple with its lavish original interior is now topped by a roof garden, and the Crocker Galleria and Office Tower (1983) by SOM are stacked up to the west of it on Post Street. The Galleria is particularly attractive (Wiley 2000:166).' Source: www.webnexus.com/users/vlp/sfbay0004ref_20thc_012.html
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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