California Academy of Sciences
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Year: 2008
Location: San Francisco, United States
Category: University
About
Designing a great cultural and scientific institution in San Francisco , a city with a strong collective vocation for the environment, also meant finding a language that expressed this shared vision of the present in an immediate way. Through the evocative spaces of the Museum of Natural History, the large green roof that breathes and the successful coexistence of outreach activities and research, the new headquarters of the California Academy of Sciences wanted, using architecture, to convey their passion for knowledge of nature and the fact that the earth is fragile.
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