M.H. de Young Museum
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Year: 2005
Location: San Francisco, United States
Category: Museums & Exhibit
About
The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum by Herzog & de Meuron is a remarkable revival of a building that no longer exists. The original museum, which opened in 1895, was an outgrowth of a fair modeled on the Chicago World���s Columbian Exposition the previous year known as the California Midwinter Internation Exposition of 1894.
Tags: Cultural Architecture, Museums & Exhibit, Library, Museums and Libraries, California, Herzog & de Meuron, Glass, Recycling, Steel, Concrete