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United States Post Office, Sausalito, CA
 Sausalito's Main Post Office is located on a highly visible, seismically very sensitive San Francisco Bay mud site. Precast concrete piles driven to bedrock with concrete pile caps and grade beams were designed to transfer the building and seismic loads to the firm underlying strata.
Solids compete with voids, light with shade while split faced blocks provide irregular texture to wall surfaces. Smooth faced masonry string courses tie the divergent forms in unity.
Danadjieva Hansen Architects' cost control, in response to fixed congressional appropriation,
was much appreciated when the acceptable bid received was within 1% of the Architect's cost estimate.
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