Simms Building

Simms Building
Simms Building Albuquerque.jpg
Alternative names	Sandia Savings Bank Building
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Location	400 Gold Avenue SW Albuquerque, New Mexico
Coordinates
Completed	1954
Height
Roof	54.86 m (180.0 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	13
Floor area	114,000 sq ft (10,600 m²)^[1]
Design and construction
Architect	Flatow, Moore, Bryan and Fairburn

Simms Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Architectural style:	International style
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	97001653
Designated NHL:	1998
References
^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The Simms Building in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico was the city's first modern, International Style skyscraper. It was built in 1954, making it a contemporary of the similar Lever House in New York City. The building is located at 400 Gold Avenue SW, which was originally the location of the old sandstone Commercial Club building. The Simms Building is 55 m (180 ft) with 13 floors, which made it the tallest building in the state until the Bank of the West Tower was built 9 years later. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[5]

Like the neighboring Gold Building, the Simms Building has windowless brick walls on the east and west sides and glass curtain walls on the other two faces, designed by the firm Flatow, Moore, Bryan, and Fairburn, that also credited for the Dennis Chavez Federal Building one block to the west.

The Simms Building is used in Breaking Bad as the DEA office of show character, DEA Agent Hank Schrader. Ironically there is a historic Federal Building in the same block, the Federal Building and United States Courthouse, built in 1930, located at 421 Gold Avenue SW in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is part of the complex of federal buildings on Gold Avenue that includes the Old Post Office, Dennis Chavez Federal Building, and the Federal Building at 517 Gold Avenue SW.

References

^ Moskos, Harry (August 15, 2004). "Where It's Happening". The Albuquerque Journal.
^ Simms Building at Emporis
^ Simms Building at SkyscraperPage
^ Simms Building at Structurae
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NM/Bernalillo/state3.html. Retrieved 2 December 2010.

External links

Timeline of the tallest Buildings in Albuquerque

First National Bank Building (43 m) (1922) · Simms Building (55 m) (1954) · Bank of the West Tower (65 m) (1963) · Compass Bank Building (73 m) (1968) · Albuquerque Plaza (107 m) (1990)

High-rises in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Constructed	Albuquerque Plaza · Hyatt Regency Albuquerque · Compass Bank Building · Albuquerque Petroleum Building · Bank of the West Tower · Gold Building · Dennis Chavez Federal Building · PNM Building · Simms Building · Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse · Metropolitan Courthouse · Park Plaza Condominiums · First National Bank Building · Andaluz Hotel

Proposed	The Residences at Packard Place · Chant Tower

See also: List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque

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