One Post Street Building vs One Montgomery Tower

Comparing the One Post Street Building and the One Montgomery Tower is interesting because they both rise in San Francisco, CA, yet they were conceived by two different design teams, Welton Becket & Associates and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and were completed at different points in time. They were finished more than a decade apart.

This contrast within the same city allows us to see how different creative minds interpreted the evolving needs of San Francisco across time.

Let's take a closer look!

Both the One Post Street Building and the One Montgomery Tower were designed in line with the aesthetic conventions of the Postmodernism style.

Back then, thePostmodernism was still an emerging movement, so both giving it a pioneering role. By contrast, the One Montgomery Tower came later, when the style was already more established.

Both the One Post Street Building and the One Montgomery Tower were designed to serve as commercial towers, and that has remained their main use since their completion, serving similar roles in the urban fabric.

These two towers illustrate the many possible ways to combine structure and enclosure in skyscraper design.