450 Sutter Street Building

The 450 Sutter Street Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Miller and Pflueger and built between 1928 and 1929 in San Francisco, CA.

450 Sutter Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The 450 Sutter Street Building is also known, or has been known as, Four Fifty Sutter Building, or Medical-Dental Office Building.

Its precise street address is 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA. You can also find it on the map here.

The 450 Sutter Street Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of San Francisco and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the 450 Sutter Street Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on December 22^nd 2012.

The building underwent a major restoration between 2007 and 2010.

Miller and Pflueger was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

Miller and Pflueger was in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves 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 450 Sutter Street Building a reality:

• Lindgren & Swinerton as the Main Contractor
• Francis E. Morgan, Jr. as the Main Developer

The 450 Sutter Street Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 450 Sutter Street Building was completed in 1929, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 450 Sutter 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 is non-load bearing either, as it is common in frame structure type buildings.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features mayan-decorated terracotta pieces with a vertically faceted pattern accentuating the verticality of the building, as well as cast metal frames of the windows .

Other materials found at the 450 Sutter Street Building include, mottled brown marble, found in the lobby, and plaster, usef to create a simple rectilinear cornice around the ceilings.