Architect and engineer . THIRD FLOOR PLAN, SHELL BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOGeo. W. Kelham, Architect At the twenty-eighth floor large project-ing bowls play shadows across the pier sur-faces below, serving not only to foil thestrong vertical lines of the building, but al-so by contrast to intensify the interest in its crown are three niches, the upper portions-of which form shells. Stabilized by thebowls below, they serve alike as symbolismand to unify the terminals. The bold surface of the sepia-tinted terra July, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 37 ?cotta, covered with innumberable facets, bright m
Architect and engineer . THIRD FLOOR PLAN, SHELL BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOGeo. W. Kelham, Architect At the twenty-eighth floor large project-ing bowls play shadows across the pier sur-faces below, serving not only to foil thestrong vertical lines of the building, but al-so by contrast to intensify the interest in its crown are three niches, the upper portions-of which form shells. Stabilized by thebowls below, they serve alike as symbolismand to unify the terminals. The bold surface of the sepia-tinted terra July, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 37 ?cotta, covered with innumberable facets, bright metal to reflect the rays as if theylends unusual strength to the ornament, were thrones of sunlight. The whimsical•Of Egyptian ancestry with a modernistic changes of decoration wrought by the play. TWENTIETH FLOOR PLAN, SHELL BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOGeo. W. Kelhara, Architect flare, this has been designed to respond, withhighlight, shade and shadow, to the move-ment of the sun in a manner that suggeststhe artifice of the ancients who sheathedthe pyramidions of their monuments in of light on the satin-textured surfaces giverest to the eye and pleasure to the senses. From the street, attention is caught bythe strong line at the third-floor belt coursewhich defines the pedestal of the tall shaft. 38 AflCHlT^CJ AND ENGINEER July, 1930
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