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Article: The de Young Is... DeLovely; A daring, dazzling museum puts San Francisco on the map for design lovers. And what a view from the top.(de Young Museum, San Francisco, California)
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- October 17, 2005
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Byline: Cathleen McGuigan
If you go to the top of the tower that rises out of San Francisco's stunning new de Young Museum, you can see for miles. You can see the Marin headlands and the downtown high-rises; on a clear day you can see the Pacific. You can look down, too, onto the main part of the museum itself and see the ingenious design of the long, low-slung structure--with wedges sliced deep into its oblong shape to let daylight penetrate--and notice how the shimmery copper that wraps the exterior even covers the roof. If museums are today's cathedrals, this tower is the de Young's campanile--though in the hands of the edgy Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and ...
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