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Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Stantec Architecture
- Year: 2008
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Photographs:Tim Griffith, Nic Lehoux, Justin Lee, Tom Fox, SWA Group, Shunji Ishida
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Manufacturers: Pyrok, Zone Display Cases, Hydrotec, Josef Gartner, Otis, Reynolds Polymer Technology, Steelcase, Webcor Concrete
Text description provided by the architects. 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.
