Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel California Preservation Award
The Salk Institute is listed as a local
landmark and the Salk’s leadership team
decided to take steps to ensure the
longevity of the original teak window
assemblies. Wiss, Janney, Elstner
Associates, Inc. was retained to
investigate the causes of the varying
levels of deterioration, to evaluate the
structural capacity of the wood, and to
develop a construction repair program
incorporating some results from Getty
Conservation Institute studies that met
the Salk’s goals. WJE carried out a
detailed assessment of the windows,
documented the existing conditions,
and using the California Historical
Building Code, developed repair
documents and protocols that retained
much of the Burmese teak selected by
Louis Kahn and Jonas Salk originally.
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