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Architect. Years active. 1905-1949. Arthur Brown Jr. (May 21, 1874—July 7, 1957) [1] was an American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with John Bakewell Jr. as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after the partnership dissolved in 1927.
San Francisco city officials donated a site in 1930. Architect Arthur Brown, Jr. designed the building, which was constructed between 1934 and 1936, under the auspices of Supervising Architect of the Treasury Louis A. Simon. Brown studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the world's preeminent architectural school, graduating in 1901.
It was designed by architect Arthur Brown Jr. [2] The first nine floors of the tower are library stacks and the next three floors are used for offices. Exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived on the 11th floor for some time upon invitation by Stanford University before he moved in 1976.
The principal architect was Arthur Brown, Jr., of Bakewell & Brown, whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage. [ citation needed ] Brown also designed the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House , Veterans Building , Temple Emanuel , Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 ...
The Art Deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 22 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants. Three artists preferred oil on canvas and worked offsite.
Buildings and structures designed by American architect Arthur Brown Jr. Pages in category "Arthur Brown Jr. buildings" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The design of the Berkeley City Hall was derived from the Town Hall at Tours, France, designed by Victor Laloux. The building design by architects John Bakewell Jr., and Arthur Brown Jr. for the old city hall was selected as the winner of a 1907 competition to replace the original Town Hall which had burned to the ground in 1904 (designed by Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, 1884).
Aerial view of the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, among other buildings, in the Federal Triangle.The National Museum of American History is in the foreground.. San Francisco-based American architect Arthur Brown, Jr. designed the auditorium as well as the two buildings adjacent to it. [3]