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Article: A stunningly seismic solution: an award-winning team of architects and a cutting-edge contractor give San Francisco's renowned de Young art museum some fascinating and durable ceilings.
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- Walls & Ceilings
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- April 1, 2007
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After suffering severe damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco's de Young museum has reopened its doors to an admiring public. What's amazing to many is how wonderfully Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron blended de Young's new home with its surroundings in Golden Gate Park.
On the outside, a perforated copper facade creates dappled patterns of light that mimic how sunlight filters through the trees. Inside, the museum is a marvel of great space usage. Impressively, the designers doubled the previous de Young's total square footage, choosing a new three-level design, thereby returning two acres of open ...