San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall
Anthony J. Lumsden
Martin Middlebrook Louie
Mission Grille (closed)
Fourth Street Bar & Grille (closed)
The View
"Mission Street Pantry" (opened 2015)
The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is a 133 m (436 ft) 39-story skyscraper in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Situated at the intersection of Fourth and Mission Streets, across from the Metreon and Moscone Convention Center, the building is recognizable by the distinctive postmodern appearance of its high-rise tower. The building was completed in 1989, and contains 1,500 hotel rooms.[4] The original architectural firm Zeidler Partnership Architects was replaced by DMJM architect Anthony J Lumsden, who gave the building its overall architectural style.[5] The San Francisco Marriott is the second tallest hotel in San Francisco, after Hilton San Francisco Tower I.
The hotel was at the heart of the city of San Francisco's development of the central blocks in the South of Market area during the late 1970s and early 1980s.[6] The city had put out an invitation to property developers to come up with ideas for the area. Ten developers originally responded and the eventual proposal chosen - in October 1980 - was a joint effort by Marriott together with the Canadian property developers Olympia and York.[citation needed]
The Marriott Marquis opened on October 17, 1989, the day of the Loma Prieta earthquake.[7] With better earthquake proofing than several nearby hotels, the building only lost a single window.[7]
In popular culture
Local newspaper columnist Herb Caen complained that reflections from the hotel's windows blinded him in his office at the nearby Chronicle building, and compared its shape to that of a jukebox.[7]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ "Emporis building ID 118782". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
- ^ "San Francisco Marriott Marquis". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ San Francisco Marriott Marquis at Structurae
- ^ Sarah Duxbury (February 8, 2008). "$200M Hotel Joins Inn Crowd". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
- ^ Christopher Hawthorne (October 10, 2011). "Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ Chester Hartman, City for Sale. The Transformation of San Francisco. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002, chapter 8.
- ^ a b c Rosato, Joe (Oct 17, 2014). "25 Years Since Loma Prieta: San Francisco Marriott Marquis Shares Unfortunate Date with Disaster". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved Oct 17, 2014.
Further reading
- "San Francisco Marriott Marquis Fact Sheet". Marriott International. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- Lloyd, Peter (1997). San Francisco. Cologne: Könnemann. pp. 20–23. ISBN 3-89508-643-6.
- Hartman, Chester (2002). "8". City for Sale. The Transformation of San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08605-8.
External links
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