San Francisco Proper Hotel

Architect
Albert Pissis
Year
2017
Style
Beaux-Arts
City
San Francisco, CA
Collection
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The San Francisco Proper Hotel occupies a Beaux-Arts building in downtown San Francisco designed by Albert Pissis, one of the city's most historically significant architects, and it opened as a hotel in 2017. Pissis's formal, classically detailed facade gives the building a prominent street presence downtown, now paired with a contemporary hospitality use.

the style

The Beaux-Arts style, the ornamented, classically symmetrical vocabulary Pissis was known for in San Francisco, is what gives the building its prominent, formal facade on the downtown street.

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the architect

Albert Pissis was one of San Francisco's most historically significant architects; this Beaux-Arts building downtown is one of his surviving works in the city.

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