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03/04/2009 |
| HINES AND STERLING WRAP UP RENOVATION |
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The $30 million renovation of 120 Montgomery St. has been completed and the structure has officially been renamed 100 Montgomery, according to the Hines and the New York based Sterling American Property Inc., joint owners of the property.
In January 2006, Hines/Sterling bought the 25-story, 430,000-square-foot building for $67.5 million and started a 36-month redevelopment plan for the building.
In the half century since it opened in 1955 as the Equitable Life Building, the building’s façade had slowly deteriorated and when Hines/Sterling bought it the aluminum spandrel panels were corroding, the marble cladding was cracking, and there was a protective pedestrian scaffold over the sidewalk in place for several years that shielded passersby from falling marble fragments.
Working with the San Francisco Planning Department, Hines, Sterling and Robert A.M. Stern Architects designed a new building façade and lobby while attempting to keep the historic character of the building. The signature component of the renovation is the new lobby, which is carved into the building at the corner of Montgomery and Sutter Streets, and defined by a elliptical wall of structural glass.
The renovation also included a new crystallized glass panel façade system — the first of its kind on the West Coast — over-cladding the failing marble; refurbished exterior metal including the stainless steel window mullions and decorative aluminum panels; the renovation and preservation of the building’s existing lobby on Montgomery Street; refinished elevator cabs; and new retail storefronts. Kendall/Heaton Associates of Houston, Texas, was architect-of-record.
The building was originally designed by Wilbur D. Peugh in the early 1950s and at the time set the standard for the modern San Francisco skyscraper with air conditioning, the latest in high-speed “operatorless” elevators, fluorescent lighting fixtures and acoustic ceiling treatment. The building’s dynamic façade featured marble cladding, stainless steel window mullions and decorative aluminum spandrels with a three dimensional art-deco motif.
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