580 California Street Explained

580 California Street is a high rise office building completed in 1987 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The postmodern, 107m (351feet), 23 story tower is bordered by Kearny Street and California Street, and is topped with three faceless, 12feet-tall statues, on each side of the building on the twenty-third floor. The art installation is entitled "The Corporate Goddesses" by Muriel Castanis, the late designer and creator of the sculptures.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Tenants

• Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
• CEB
• Consulate General of Canada ^[5]
• Huron Consulting Group
• Motive Medical Intelligence
• Northern Trust Corporation
• State Farm Insurance
• Welocalize
• Wetherby Asset Management
• Osborne Partners Capital Management
• Oppenheimer & Co. Inc
• Troutman Sanders LLP
• Recommind
• Academia.edu
• Zenith American Solutions

See also

• San Francisco's tallest buildings

External links

• 580 California project page at Philip Johnson · Alan Ritchie Architects
• 580 California Street at Hines Interests Limited Partnership

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emporis building ID 118856 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160805225125/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118856 . usurped . August 5, 2016 . Emporis.
2. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=130952XQ4J737.71515&profile=ariall&uri=full=3100001~!331666~!3&ri=4&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&source=~!siartinventories&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Muriel+Castanis&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=4 "580 California Street Roof Figures"
3. Web site: Ingrid Taylar . Muriel Castanis Sculptures - 580 California . about.com . 2010 . 31 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101205213241/http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/sanfranciscophoto1/ig/Financial-District/Muriel-Castanis-Sculptures.htm . 5 December 2010 .
4. News: John M. Glionna . Locals face off over Bay Area statues' meaning . The Los Angeles Times . January 4, 2007 . 31 August 2010.
5. Web site: Services, Location, and Hours of Operation . Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco . 2010 . 1 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529215055/http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/san_francisco/contact-contactez.aspx?lang=eng . 29 May 2010 . dead .