730 I STREET — DBRDS

730 I Street, Sacramento

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In 2018 DBRDS received Planning Commission approval for alterations & additions to a historically sensitive building in downtown Sacramento. The brief as to activate the building through a series of alternations to entice commercial tenants. While the construction did not move forward for a variety of reasons, the approval was praised by several local preservation advocates, including Gretchen Steinberg, President of SacMod.org, as follows:

“This is exactly the kind of adaptive re‐use that Sacramento needs — to embrace a great example of mid‐century modern design and adapt it to present day. I look forward to the day we celebrate the building’s re‐use and continued presence in our cityscape well into the next century.”

DETAILS

Address: 730 I Street, Sacramento CA 95814

Site Area: 1.18 acres

Status: Entitlement approved in 2018

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HISTORIC NARRATIVE

Designed in the late 1950’s by prominent Californian firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons Architects, the 730 I Street building was developed as the main office for the Bank of America Corporation in Downtown Sacramento.

Clad in a combination of black & grey granite slabs, glass mosaics & large-pane windows, the building presents a modernism expression set back from the street. An integral part of the original design, and a celebration of the Bay Areas Bohemian art-scene is a piece by Mosaic Master Alfornso Pardiñas, which is proposed to be cleaned and maintained in the proposed project.

The prominence of the original Architect, the in-tact master-mosaic art piece and the evolution of uses from its opening in 1960 as the Bank of America main office, to the use as City Hall of Sacramento during the 1990’s, the existing three-story structure located at 730 I Street is without question an important building within the region of Sacramento.

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