 A six @-@ page writeup about the building appeared in Architect and Engineer in December 1937 . The article listed the owners and the structural engineer , but did not name the architect . In the early 1980s , geologist and architectural historian Gray Brechin discovered that Irvin Goldstine had designed the building ; Brechin subsequently interviewed Goldstine regarding his career . An article about the discovery was printed in Metro Magazine , a defunct San Francisco magazine . Until that time , the building was thought to be designed by the Mallochs . 
