The Cannery
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Architect Joseph Esherick
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Location San Francisco, California   map
Date 1968   timeline
Building Type adaptive reuse for shops, resaurants
 Construction System brick bearing masonry, concrete
Climate mild
Context urban, waterfront
Style Modern Adaptive Reuse of Understated Romanesque
Notes Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis (EHDD). Remodeling of old Del Monte cannery on the waterfront into a gently maze-like tourist and shopping mecca.
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Photo, interior, retail shop

Photo, exterior, courtyard space

Photo, exterior, courtyard space
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Discussion The Cannery Commentary

"The clever renovation created a mecca for tourists and other shoppers. The old, brick Del Monte Cannery, conveniently located near Fisherman's Wharf, was gutted and entirely rebuilt inside, transformed into three levels of varied commercial space served by elevators, an escalator, and seven different staircases—all arranged, says Esherick, with 'enough turns, zigzags and corners...to offer at least some hint of a maze.' "

—from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p28.

Resources
Sources on The Cannery

Sytherland Lyall. Designing the New Landscape. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. © 1991 by Thames and Hudson, London. ISBN 0-442-30354-8. LC 90-12017. SB472.L89. photo taken inside the outdoor portion of the complex, f38, p28. photo courtesy of EHDD.

Kevin Matthews, University of Oregon. Slides from author's collection, August 1992. PCD.3189.1011.1916.025. PCD.3189.1011.1916.024. PCD.3189.1011.1916.023. PCD.3189.1011.1916.022

A. J. Peterson, Oakland, CA. Slide from photographer's collection, November 1993. PCD.2287.1022.1938.043.

Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. ISBN 0-442-29190-6. LC 89-5320. NA703.W75 1989. discussion, p28. exterior photo of ctyd, f38, p28.

Walter F. Wagner Jr., ed. "The Cannery in San Francisco", Architectural Record. March 1973. Vol 153 Number 3. p132. drawing of lower floor plan, p134. drawing of upper floor plan, p134. drawing of site plan, p132-33.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com


 

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