The San Francisco Ferry Building is a historic landmark today, but it has only been in recent history that the building has officially been returned to its iconic status. A. Brown designed the Ferry Building in the Beaux-Arts Architectural style, meaning it has such and such characteristics. The Beaux-Arts style highlights symmetry based on heavy influences of Greek and Roman design (Architectural Styles, 2017). It is a classic theme throughout the planning and architectural history to be influenced by classical Greek and Roman styles. This particular style lends a regal and iconic facade to the Bay Area waterfront and demonstrated the rise of San Francisco as a booming city. The Ferry Building first opened in 1898 and soon became the
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After the 1989 earthquake and the subsequent need for redevelopment of the Embarcadero Freeway, a new goal was created. The goal was to reinvigorate the area in tandem with the restoration of the Ferry Building and consequently draw people back to San Francisco’s eastern waterfront (Sensig, 2007). The plan for the Ferry Building and the surrounding area was to turn it into a welcoming place of growing commerce and continued development. The restoration plan for the Ferry Building gutted much of the interior since almost all of the original interior had been lost when the building had undergone its first transformation into office space. The new plan involved turning the main walkway into a “streetway” that reveal vaulted glass ceilings. The new design created an “inspiring interior street and market place” (Sensig, 2007). The feeling of this interior street and market way is reminiscent of the Parisian …show more content…
One of the main issues that the Ferry Building faces is that it was built on the very edge of landfill and above a seawall, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes, and are “identified as in very high liquefaction susceptibility zones” (Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2017). Yet, even with the identification of the high susceptibility, plans for the ferry terminal expansion continues. Repairs to the building to bring it up to code, as well as building the new expansion within the parameter of the code are expected to keep the building safe in the event of an earthquake, or other event. Still, the instability of the land that the Ferry Building is built on top of is something that should be remembered, and kept at the forefront when even more development in the area is
After the 1989 earthquake and the subsequent need for redevelopment of the Embarcadero Freeway, a new goal was created. The goal was to reinvigorate the area in tandem with the restoration of the Ferry Building and consequently draw people back to San Francisco’s eastern waterfront (Sensig, 2007). The plan for the Ferry Building and the surrounding area was to turn it into a welcoming place of growing commerce and continued development. The restoration plan for the Ferry Building gutted much of the interior since almost all of the original interior had been lost when the building had undergone its first transformation into office space. The new plan involved turning the main walkway into a “streetway” that reveal vaulted glass ceilings. The new design created an “inspiring interior street and market place” (Sensig, 2007). The feeling of this interior street and market way is reminiscent of the Parisian …show more content…
One of the main issues that the Ferry Building faces is that it was built on the very edge of landfill and above a seawall, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes, and are “identified as in very high liquefaction susceptibility zones” (Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2017). Yet, even with the identification of the high susceptibility, plans for the ferry terminal expansion continues. Repairs to the building to bring it up to code, as well as building the new expansion within the parameter of the code are expected to keep the building safe in the event of an earthquake, or other event. Still, the instability of the land that the Ferry Building is built on top of is something that should be remembered, and kept at the forefront when even more development in the area is