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Identifier: architectenginee16847sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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that time ceramic units had been manu-factured and installed by the adhesion method onvarious buildings, but the Western MerchandiseMart was the first multiple story structure on which . . . WESTERN MERCHAIVDISE MART large units were applied solely by the adhesion ofcement mortar and as a thin veneer. Naturally, many architects and engineers ques-tioned the wisdom of using this type material ona ten-story building in view of the earthquakehazard existing in this area. The designers andowners of the building, as well as the manufac-turers of the product, however, had full confidencein the efficiency of this method based upon ex- UNDERPINNING for fheWESTERN MERCHANDISE MART by D. J. & T. SULLIVAN 1942 Folsom St.. San Francisco MArket 1-1545 ELECTRICAL C 0 IfTRACTO RS FOR THE NEW WESTERN MERCHANDISE MART SAN FRANCISCO — INSTALLATIONS BY PUIFIC (((CTRICIIL 16th Street at Vermont San Francisco 3 HEMLOCK 1-5904 L CO., 400 So. Boylston StreetLos Angeles 13MADISON 7641 AUGUST, 1947 27 m
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CERAMIC VENEER (TERRA COTTA) ADHESION TYPE: All plain areas are one-inch thickCeramic Veneer applied by adhesion of the three-quarter-inch mortar coat. Anchors oreused in the heavy ornamented courses only. tensive tests and the experience which had beengained in the erection of smaller units over aperiod of several years. The late L. H. Nishkian, then consulting engi-neer for this project, conducted an extensive seriesof stress and strain tests which were viewed by-many of the leading architects and engineers ofthe Bay Area and the West, and as a result of thesetests wrote in his report, The tests demonstratethat Ceramic Veneer, installed by the recommend-ed method develops adhesion and shearingstrengths of a least twenty-five times any probable load which may be expected even in severe earth-quake. During the ten-year period since the WesternMerchandise Mart building was erected, manymultiple story buildings on the Pacific Coast havebeen faced with Ceramic Veneer. No evidence offailu

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  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Building
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Architect_and_Engineer__Inc
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
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  • bookleafnumber:369
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