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On the seventh floor, an
outdoor terrace (above)
offers city views. A sequence
of staircases (opposite,
top left) allows visitors
a continuous vertical flow
throughout the museum.
STUDIOS Architecture
designed the upper-level
open office (opposite, top
right) for museum staff,
incorporating long tables
for viewing artwork. Galleries
(opposite, middle two and
bottom, left) have restrained
finishes and are configured
to be flexible. The museum's
coffee bar (opposite, bottom
right) is located centrally on
the third floor.
the bathrooms: cubes of saturated color, each floor a different shade,
including red-orange, green, and purple. But the biggest break from
the vivid artwork against a white backdrop is the 30-foot-by-150-foot
living wall. Cascading, lush native ferns can be closely scrutinized from
the third-floor terrace, and the wall also offers visual repose through
windows from the second to fifth floors.
An organic appearance with fluidity and ease
On the exterior, the rippled facade demonstrates the possibilities
of a relatively new cladding material. Approximately 700 individually
modeled FRP (fiberglass-reinforced polymer) rain-screen panels,
essentially lightweight fiberglass with a cement finish, are an
inexpensive alternative to weighty concrete. The architectural
inspiration is a little muddled-Snøhetta Principal Craig Dykers
has referred to fog and the mountains of Yosemite-but the
building's organic shape is certainly a new direction for San
Francisco architecture.
Indeed, the primary downside to joining this new building
to the 1995 brick structure designed by Botta is that the Snøhetta
addition cannot have the satisfying heft and street presence
of an architectural landmark. From outside, Snøhetta's structure will
always be seen as a towering backdrop. The Botta building continues
in the starring role along Third Street, but its gutted grand lobby-
now with a less-grand staircase-resembles nothing so much as an
abandoned mall. The contemporary fluidity and ease of the Snøhetta
addition make Botta's postmodern formality look strikingly dated.
Perhaps the side-by-side comparison will nudge civic leaders
and developers in San Francisco, a city known for its architectural
conservatism, to be braver in their future choices. c
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