SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL VETERANS BUILDING

摘要

The renovation of the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, built in the Beaux-Art style in 1932, revolved chiefly around a seismic upgrade and repair to damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Building Team, headed by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SE), decided that massive foundation hold-downs would be impractical: the terra cotta-clad, concrete infill walls of the steel-framed structure posed too many life safety hazards.