Architecture San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1 architecture

1.1 mario botta building
1.2 rooftop garden
1.3 snøhetta expansion

architecture
mario botta building

plans expand museum @ old site, on upper floors of veterans memorial building in san francisco s civic center, thwarted in late 1980s. in summer of 1988, architects mario botta, thomas beeby , frank gehry announced finalists in competition design san francisco museum of modern art s new structure in downtown. semifinalists had included charles moore , tadao ando. 3 finalists present site-specific design proposals later year, museum canceled architectural competition after month , went 45-year-old architect botta.

the new museum, planned in association architects hellmuth, obata , kassabaum, built on 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m) parking lot on third street between mission , howard streets. south-of-market site, area near moscone convention center consisting of parking lots, targeted through agreement between museum, redevelopment agency , development firm of olympia & york. land provided agency , developer, rest of museum privately funded. construction of new museum began in 1992, opening in 1995, institution s 60th anniversary.

at time of new building s opening, sfmoma touted largest new american art museum of decade and, 50,000 square feet (4,600 m) of exhibition space, second-largest single structure in united states devoted modern art. (new york s museum of modern art, 100,000 square feet of gallery space, largest single structure, while 80,000 combined square feet of museum of contemporary art, los angeles put in second place).

the museum consisted of galleries rising around central, skylighted atrium. external structure featured central 130-foot (40 m) tall cylinder, , stepped-back stone facade. botta s interior design marked alternating bands of polished , flame-finished black granite on floor, ground-level walls, , column bases; , bands of natural , black-stained wood on reception desks , coat-check desk.

rooftop garden

in 2009, sfmoma opened 14,400 sq ft (1,340 m) rooftop garden. following invitational competition held in 2006, garden designed jensen architects in collaboration conger moss guillard landscape architecture, , featured 2 open-air spaces , glass pavilion provided views of museum’s sculpture collection san francisco skyline. served year-round indoor/outdoor gallery.

ceiling architecture


snøhetta expansion

in 2009, in response significant growth in museum’s audiences , collections since opening of 1995 building, sfmoma announced plans expand. shortlist released in may 2010 included 4 architecture firms officially under consideration project: adjaye associates; diller scofidio + renfro; foster + partners; , snøhetta. in july 2010 museum selected norwegian architecture firm snøhetta design expansion.

opened in may 2016, approximately 235,000-square-foot (21,800 m) expansion joined existing building new addition spanning minna howard streets. expanded building includes 7 levels dedicated art , public programming, , 3 housing enhanced support space museum s operations. offers approximately 142,000 square feet of indoor , outdoor gallery space, 15,000 square feet of art-filled free-access public space, more doubling sfmoma’s current capacity presentation of art , providing 6 times public space current building.

the designs expanded building include such new features large-scale vertical garden on third floor, slated biggest public living wall of native plants in san francisco; free ground-floor gallery facing howard street 25-foot (7.6 m) tall glass walls place art on view passersby; double-height white box space on fourth floor sophisticated lighting , sound systems; , state-of-the-art conservation studios on seventh , eighth floors. expansion facades clad lightweight panels made of fibre-reinforced plastic; when completed, largest application of composites technology architecture in united states. building on track achieve leed gold certification, 15% energy-cost reduction, 30% water-use reduction, , 20% reduction in wastewater generation.