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Pomo summer: Mario Botta's monumental San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the architect's first building in the US, but was frostily received by critics. Now undergoing a major extension ...
The logo developed in 1995 was inspired by the rigorously geometric, muscular design of the Mario Botta building then under construction. The fortresslike qualities of the architecture were reflected in a distinctive box enclosing the letters “SFMOMA.”. Twenty years later, we wondered if this logo, which had so effectively projected ...
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The building of Mario Botta, SFMOMA, is an iconic presence in the urban landscape of San Francisco. Since opening in 1995, the building has become one of the main attractions of South of Market, in the city center. In the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibitions not only are outrageous. The exterior of the building, designed by renowned archi...
It is located in the downtown area, in Downtown San Francisco, California, United States. Specifically, at 151 Third Street, next to the Yerba Buena Gardens SoMa district. This district of the city is characterized by its industrial past. After a wave of boom in the 90s, the South of Market area is now home to a variety of artistic and cultural ven...
The architecture, as described Botta, involves a light-filled space that depends on gravity to remain earthbound. But, in his words, “what you see on earth is just the tip of the iceberg”. Any new building is a “built landscape” shaped by the invisible culture of their builders. At SFMOMA, the iconic skylight represents the “eye of the city”, “is l...
The five-tiered floors with a brick facade and crowned by a tall cylindrical turret, bears the signature style Botta. The tower was completed with alternating bands of black and white stone, topped with a radial pattern of the same material. The Museum, with nearly 21,000 m2, includes numerous public areas dedicated to various schedules and functio...
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May 1, 2016 · Sidebar: The Creative Process. People/Products. When it was founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) occupied one, then two floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Hayes Valley neighborhood before moving into its purpose-built, Mario Botta–designed home in nearby SoMa in 1995.
By their nature, building upon an existing structure encompasses technical, structural and programmatic concerns. These are multiplied when dealing with an iconic work like the Mario Botta–designed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The purpose-built structure became the home for SFMOMA in 1995, suffering from a design with poor circulation.
May 5, 2016 · Shoehorned into the narrow space behind Mario Botta’s 1995 building, the Snøhetta-designed new wing of the SFMOMA was forced to go where few museums have gone before: up. Rising 10 stories into ...
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incorporates and renovates the museum’s existing Mario Botta–designed building, which debuted in 1995. The new museum accommodates the significant growth of SFMOMA’s collection, program and visitorship, nearly tripling the museum’s gallery space, including nearly 45,000 square feet of free public-access space and weaving SFMOMA into its ...
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