Snøhetta   United States   In 1995, with the opening of the new Mario Botta-designed building of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the museum led a profound transformation of the South of Market disctrict, a neighborhood which soon became the cultural hub of the

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Until it closed down in 2011, the Dogpatch power station was the last still-operating infrastructural building in what had been one of the busiest industrial areas on the US West Coast, a neighborhood now undergoing a gentrification process: in the E

Tatiana Bilbao   United States   The urban strategy was distilled into a ‘wheel of life’; a way of seeing the co-relation between activities usually understood as separate entities – life, knowledge, production and strength –, resulting in a series of tools for designing spaces. The

United States   The artist Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) has installed five reflective spheres at the east entrance plaza of San Francisco’s Chase Center, new home of the Golden State Warriors, the city’s basketball team. Each measuring 4.8 meters in diameter,

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The motto of the almost centenary California Academy of Sciences, ‘Exploring, explaining, and sustaining life of Earth,’ inspired the design of its new headquarters, built to replace the old ensemble of buildings – severely damaged in the 1989 earthq

Snøhetta   United States   In 1995, with the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s new building designed by architect Mario Botta, the museum spearheaded a profound transformation of the South of Market district, that soon became a cultural hub for the c

Morphosis   United States   Martin Filler The stunning new Federal Building in San Francisco leaves little doubt that its principal designer, Thom Mayne, of the Santa Monica based firm Morphosis, is now preeminent among his 60- something generation of American architects and th

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The New Academy goes up on the same site of the former California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The design required the demolition of eleven existing structures, built between 1916 and 1991, damaged during the earthquake of

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The M.H. De Young Memorial Museum houses numerous collections, representing a variety of cultures from all over the world. The works of art in these collections go from the present day all the way back to the beginnings of human history. The museum i

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Situado en el parque Golden Gate de San Francisco, el Museo Memorial M. H. de Young alberga diversas colecciones representativas de una gran variedad de culturas del mundo, desde los inicios de la historia de la humanidad hasta el momento presente. E

San Francisco Chronicle   Steve Rubenstein   A giant green house is about to do what few San Franciscans have ever done: travel the wrong way on Franklin Street. The house’s quarter-mile journey has been in the planning stages for years. Along the route, parking meters were ripped up. Limbs fro

Precisionism emerged in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, with a style clearly influenced by the European avant-gardes – especially Purism, Cubism, and Futurism –, as well as a willingness to reflect the economic and social changes result

Popular imagination tends to make fun of ‘weird’ buildings, but also often ends up fascinated with them. In the case of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion by the American office of Snøhetta, it’s not clear if the mockery will turn into

Miguel Aguiló   Madrid  2018  
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