A massive skylight and a broad range of flxtures combine to illuminate new office space within San Francisco's iconic ferry building. San Francisco's historic Ferry Building, hailed by the late, great columnist Herb Caen as "a famous city's most famous landmark," was originally built in 1898 to serve the city's bustling ferryboat trade. The 660-ft long, Beaux Arts-style, exposed steel frame building, designed by A. Page Brown, featured numerous intriguing design elements: a massive concrete arch and piling foundation (still the largest over-water foundation of its type it in the world), a 240 ft-tall clock tower modeled after Spain's 12th Century Seville Cathedral and a peaked skylight of monumental proportions that spans the entire length of the main gallery (known as the "Great Nave"). The Nave features large clathri (crossed lattice) windows, mimicking the shape of the Nave's masonry arches, set into the perimeter walls and both ends of the building.
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