ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 405
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Sat Nov 15 10:16:21 PST 2008
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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
by Rachel Grossman
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Renzo Piano demonstrates a mastery of natural light
throughout his work. At the new California Academy of
Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, he exhibits
the same care lighting a museum of the natural world as
he has in lighting some of the world's finest art collections.
In addition to demonstrating Piano's aesthetic and
technical artistry, the new Academy building exemplifies
deep sensitivity to site and environment. This great
building recently received LEED Platinum certification,
and won a silver-level Holcim Award for Sustainable
Construction in 2005.
Light Pavilion
In the 1970s, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
revolutionized how people viewed museums with the Centre
George Pompidou in Paris.
Piano again sets a precedent in the museum world with a
large-scale project that emphasizes "green" design. This
410,000-square-foot (38,000-square-meter) building,
designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with local
partner Stantec Architecture (formerly Chong Partners
Architecture), provides a new home for the California
Academy of Sciences - a combined aquarium,
planetarium, natural history museum, and scientific
research institution.
The new Academy building is an elegant pavilion
structure with a living roof that appears to float over
skinny steel supports. At the building's center is a
glass-roofed piazza. The overall design is marked by
open, flexible exhibit spaces with sight lines to the
surrounding park.
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