44 Montgomery Street Building

The 44 Montgomery Street Building is an International Style skyscraper designed by John Graham & Company, and built between 1964 and 1967 in San Francisco, CA.

44 Montgomery Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Wells Fargo Building.

Its precise street address is 44 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA. You can also find it on the map here.

The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was Revel architecture & design.

John Graham & Company was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 44 Montgomery Street Building a reality:

• Dillingham Construction as the Main Contractor
• Wells Fargo Bank as the Main Developer

The 44 Montgomery Street Building can be categorized as an International Style building.

The 44 Montgomery Street Building was completed in 1967. By 1967 the International Style movement had already left its early days behind and could be considered a mature movement, which does not mean it was loved and accepted by everyone, on the contrary. The International Style was accepted by the architecture community way before it was by the general public, and it is therefore likely that the 44 Montgomery Street Building was not well received by everyone at the time.

The 44 Montgomery Street Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

The facade of the building however, is load bearing. This doesn't imply that it is a traditional load-bearing wall. Rather, it means that the structure's exterior pillars have been pushed to the very edges, becoming integrated with the facade, and therefore, technically, a part of it.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a very dark curtain wall heavily divided by almost white vertical aluminum panels that act as a vertical brisolei. These aluminum slats are arranged very close to each other, and significantly protrude from the windows plane, creating a very texturized facade that heavily empathises the vertical direction.