Downtown/Midtown
San Diego
Allen, Dr. Phillip
Office
Sixth & Ivy
Designed by Richard Wheeler
Anthony's Fish
Grotto (1965)
360 N. Harbor Drive
Designed by Liebhardt & Weston
Benbough Professional Building
Benbough Medical Building
Burnham Office
Building (1962)
1555 6th Avenue
Designed by Frank L. Hope & Associates
California
Steel Building (1965)
Main Street
Designed by Lloyd Ruocco
City Concourse
Plaza (1964)
Front Street
Designed by Lloyd Ruocco and William Rosser
County
Admin Bldg. (1933)
1600 Pacific Coast Highway
Designed by William
Templeton Johnson, detailing by Lloyd Ruocco
Crabtree Building (1962)
Crabtree Building
(1962)
303 “A” Street
Designed by Deems, Martin & Associates
Comments: Light, fragile, floating Miesian box; its delicacy makes
this a classic product of the 60s. The pre-stressed flat concrete
floors cantilever from four central columns giving the building appearance
of floating.
Crest Importing
Co. (1965)
2643 Fourth Avenue
Designed by Scholl & Geritz
Design Center (1949-50)
3611 5th Avenue
Designed by Lloyd Ruocco
Year Designed/Built: 1950
Comments: A glass box in the pure Miesian tradition, but much lighter
than one finds in the work of the master. This quality of lightness
is accentuated by delicate extended sun trellises and sheltering
fences. Integrates interior/exterior landscaped space by use of glass
and open planning. Nestled amidst a canyon of eucalyptus trees, wooded
walks, steps, and trellises structures, each glass-enclosed office
becomes a tree house barely distinguishable from its neighbor by
sliding glass panels that roll open to fresh air and sunlight. Ruocco
would go on to inspire other great San Diego architects Home Delawie,
Paul McKim and Russell Forester (the latter of which will be profiled
in Mid-Century San Diego Part Two, the two met in 1942 while both
were Navy ship draftsmen).
First National
Bank Building (1966)
530 B St
Designed by Tucker, Sadler & Bennett
Hallmark Building (1962)
6th & Cedar
Designed
by Hope, Frank L. & Associates
Home Savings
Tower (1962)
707 Broadway
Designed by Hope, Frank L. & Associates
Kaplan,
H.R. Storefront (1954)
905 Fifth Avenue
Designed by Sim Bruce Richards
Lightner
& Hilmen Building (1967)
3104 4th Ave.
Designed by Mosher and Drew
Comments: Quiet refined solution to problems of locating an office
building on a busy street in a residential area. Reception/conference
areas are screened from the street with canyons and the San Diego
Harbor to the West.
LKR Medical Buildin
g(1967)
3260 3rd Ave.
Designed by Deems Lewis Martin
Main
Post Office (1936)
815 E St
Designed by William Templeton Johnson
Mills
Office Building (1964)
4th & Nutmeg
Designed by Lloyd Ruocco
Mr. A's Building
2550 Fifth Avenue
Designed by Jim Bird
Parking Garage
(1965)
Centre City Concourse
Designed by Tucker, Sadler & Bennett
Rubin, Seltzer & Salomon Building (1964)
Rubin, Seltzer & Solomon
Building (1964)
3003 4th Avenue
Designed byDeems-Lewis-Martin & Associates
Comments: Detached Miesian box of offices floats above its garage structure.
The block is suspended over its site, with light, highly refined details.
Salomon Apartments, 1959
Salomon Apartments
(1959)
3200 6th Avenue
Designed by Henry H. Hester
San Diego Civic
Theater (1965)
1100 Third Avenue
Designed by Llloyd Ruocco, William Rosser
San Diego Gas & Electric (1967)
San Diego Gas & Electric
(1967)
101 Ash
Designed by Richard Wheeler
Shearson-Hammill
Building
NE corner of 6th & A
Designed by Richard Wheeler
Tucker,
Sadler & Associates Office (1962)
2411 Second Avenue
Designed by
Hal Sadler
Union
Bank Building (1968)
525 B St
Designed
by Langdon & Wilson
US
National Bank (1963)
190 Broadway
Designed
by Raymond Ervin
Watts
Office Building (1964
2970 Main Street
Designed by Lloyd
Ruocco
