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Show Special heat pipes are imbedded in sidewalks surrounding the bank building so snow will melt and sidewalks will remain dry in spite of weather. A. protective canopy also protects customers and other pedestrians from the weather, Twenty-On- e Stories Speak Progress in Action by Garff, Ryberg and Garff, . and Okland Construction It was in the fall of 1959 wjien Zions Securities razed the comer at Number One South Main . . . the old Templeton Building and Checks are sorted at the rate of 9fO per minute by this reader- sorter one of many in the bank's Electromc Data Processing the Standard Furniture building to the south. A high rise building to headquarter Kennecott Copper Company in .Salt Lake was being transferred from the drawing board to a reality. ter Improved service is the result of the use of these modem ma- chines and methods, and custom- ers share in the savings. Cen- - . .Kelly Company" ProvidesCorporate Image Kennecott Copper Corporation Time Engichose Shaw-Walkneered furniture .and Domore Executive furniture for their offices. Oscar Sorenson, installation supervisor, explained, Careful considerationwas made ' to proyide attractive and functional arrangements. The American Architects flush-styl- e design desks and credenzas, complement the modern architecture.1 er Shaw-Walke- r, In other areas Clutter-Proo- f are Shaw-Walk- er Sky- scraper desks. Elmer Kelly, president;' says, A recent office management study shows desk neatness and work efficiency have a definite relationship, confirming again that Clutter-Prdo- f desks increase work out-pand employe morale. - ut In executive areas, Domore Executive furniture is used to create esthetic balance, and a special brass finish was produced for this. According to Monte Kershner, Kelly Co. designer, the reception area was developed to .create a corporate image for Kennecott. An attractive circular counter provides Zions First' National Bank the latest iit Shaw-Walk- oped into. beautifully landscaped walkways, reflecting pools and planting of trees and shrubs. er gineered counter units. Time'En- - . Plans were redrawn after the initial announcement to accommodate various requirements of tenants and the site lay idle until the fall of 1962, when Mark B. Garff, Ryberg and Garff and Okland Construction companies jointly received the contract for construction. Then came action. Excavation, piledriving and shoring required a full year until December 1963, structural steel began to rise abpve ground approximately 270 feet from sidewalk to the penthouse roof. The Kennecott Building contains 334,525 gross square feet of floor area, built on the'prop-- erty lines of South Temple and . Main Streets, leaving open areas along the southland east sides of the building which will be devel -- - Native materials have been used for the outside envelope of the building and cast concrete with selected white pebbles exposed on the surface to cover the columns from the sidewalk level .to the top of the parapet wall. A canopy' around the building is bronze, as are the doors on street level. The lobby is finished with considerable bronze andbrassr marble walls and terrazzo floors. The new structure, 18 stories above ground and three below, reputedly the worlds largest? ' d building, has used Kennecotts own copper 600,000 pounds in ail. It is supported on structural steel pile i driven some 70 feet below the basement and will resist earthquakes and 100 mile per hour winds. .. copper-sheathe- -- General contractors, Garff, Ryberg and Garff and Okland Construction Co., present a building of remarkable beauty and unusual features both in design and construction. - . Z 9 |