You Opening soon: Reborn by the bay
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, October, 2005
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San Francisco’s de Young museum is reopening October 15 in a magnificent new space designed by famed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The museum had sustained serious damage following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake—it had to be propped up with steel girders—and finally closed in 2000 in order to be rebuilt from the bottom up.
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Five years and $202 million later, the new de Young is far more than seismically stable. Herzog & de Meuron, who also designed London’s Tate Modern and Minneapolis’s updated Walker Art Center, created a contemporary building that isn’t just in Golden Gate Park, but part of it: Intricate gardens surround—and weave through—the 293,000-square-foot museum, and the perforated raw-copper facade will acquire a greenish patina over time, à la the Statue of Liberty, blending the building into the park’s surrounding pine and eucalyptus trees. The highlight is a nine-story spiraling ...
