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Apr 26, 2011 · The color came about thanks to Irving Morrow, the Golden Gate’s consulting architect, who noticed the striking reddish-orange primer painted on some of the steel. Morrow designed the bridge’s ...
Bridge Lighting. Consulting Architect, Irving F. Morrow, wrote Report on Color and Lighting to Chief Engineer, Joseph B. Strauss, on April 6, 1935. In his report, he indicated that the two most important factors in lighting the Golden Gate Bridge were the enormous size of the project and the tremendous scale and dignity of the project.
Irving Foster Morrow (September 22, 1884 – October 28, 1952) was an American architect best known for designing the Golden Gate Bridge. (en) Irving Foster Morrow, né le 22 septembre 1884 à Oakland et mort le 28 octobre 1952, était un architecte américain qui fut impliqué dans la construction du pont du Golden Gate de San Francisco.
Oct 31, 2023 · "The color was chosen as the primary color of the bridge by consulting architect Irving Morrow, who noticed the red lead primer of the steel arriving from mills on the east coast. He thought the red primer would serve the dual purpose of making the bridge stand out for ships and planes in the dense fog while blending in with the natural beauty ...
Dec 5, 2018 · Most of the objections to Strauss’s original “rat-trap” mishmash of girders and cables dissipated in the light of Ellis’s elegant suspension design. The design of the towers, the other notable feature of the bridge, was not in Ellis’s bailiwick; they were conceived by John Eberson and Irving Morrow; we have written a post on Morrow.
Born Irving Morrow in Oakland, California in 1884.He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1906, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1908 to 1911. In 1916, he began to practice in San Francisco and Oakland. Irving Morrow designed schools, houses, banks, and commercial buildings.He had a big part of the architect of the Golden Gate Bridge from 1932 to 1937 ...
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