Type Commercial offices Roof 308 ft (94 m) Height 94 m Floors 20 Owner Tishman Speyer | Completed 1959, 58 years ago Floor count 20 Opened 1959 Floor area 4 ha | |
Alternative names Crown Zellerbach Building Location 1 Bush Street
San Francisco, California Address San Francisco, CA 94104, USA Architecture firm Skid, Owings & Merrill Similar Stevenson Place, Commercial Union Assuranc, Embarcadero West, Shell Building, 100 First Plaza | ||
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One Bush Plaza also known as the Crown Zellerbach Building is an office building in the western United States in San Francisco, California. Located on Bush Street and Battery Street at Market Street in the Financial District, the 20-story, 308-foot (94 m) building was completed in 1959.
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History
The building was originally the headquarters of the Crown Zellerbach, a Fortune 500 forest products conglomerate acquired by Sir James Goldsmith in a 1985 hostile takeover. The majority of the pulp and paper assets were sold to James River in 1986, which in turn became a part of Georgia-Pacific in 2000. (The brown paper container division became Gaylord Container). James River's headquarters were in Richmond, Virginia, and Gaylord's moved to suburban Chicago. The building was later the headquarters of Hambrecht & Quist.
Constructed in the late 1950s, it was the first significant structure erected in downtown San Francisco in the thirty years following the start of the Great Depression. It was the first International Style building in San Francisco and one of the first International Style buildings in the U.S., being completed shortly after the Lever House and Seagram Building. It was not however the first building in San Francisco to feature a glass curtain wall, that designation belongs to the Hallidie Building, two blocks to the west.
It is controversial due to the decision for the building to face Bush St. instead of Market St., Market St. being in decline during the time it was built. It is notable for taking up an entire city block and being freestanding. It is directly facing the Shell Building, an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in San Francisco.
The architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building.