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Image Source :	Architectural Record 1/2009, p. 61
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Rights Owner :	McGraw-Hill Companies
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Image Source :	Architectural Record 1/2009, p. 62
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Work ID :	CAAcademyofSciences
Title :	California Academy of Sciences
Creator/Agent :	Piano, Renzo [ARCHITECT] [ULAN] RPBW (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) [ARCHITECTURAL FIRM] Arup [ENGINEERS] Stantec Group [ARCHITECT OF RECORD] SWA Group [LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT]
Date (of work) :	2004-2008
Location/Site :	United States [TGN] California [STATE] [TGN] San Francisco [COUNTY] [TGN] San Francisco [INHABITED PLACE] [TGN] San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Park 55 Music Concourse Drive [ADDRESS]
GIS Coordinates :	+37.769695-122.466409
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Description :	A museum of natural history located in Golden Gate Park. The building's green roof bulges to form seven hills and is pierced by skylights, which naturally ventilate the space below; the entrance is on the north side, where the building faces the deYoung Museum. A canopy of nearly 60,000 photovoltaic cells shades the main entry (north side of the building) and the staff entrance, and generates at least 5 percent of the building's energy. RPBW (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) designed a set of four masonry structures to support the expansive roof. The masonry structures incorporate two of the original Academy building's limestone walls; the others are poured concrete. One sphere is the building's planetarium and the other is the rain forest sphere - a ramp spirals up through the zones of the rainforest; a cable-and-glass skylight covers the nearly 7000 square foot piazza, central between the two spheres. Exhibition spaces flank each sphere.
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Work Type :	Architecture [AAT] Museums [AAT]
Measurements :	410,000 sq ft 2.5 acre roof
Material :	glass [AAT] concrete [AAT] sod [AAT] turf grass stone
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Twenty-first Century LEED Certified American [AAT]
Cultural Context :	American West Coast
Subject :	Museum Science Museum Natural History Museum
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Text Reference :	Pearson, Clifford A. 2009. Renzo Piano designs a living, breathing building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the California Academy of Sciences. Architectural Record 01-2009: 58-69. http://www.calacademy.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Academy_of_Sciences
Keywords :	green, sustainable, passive energy, field, greenroof
Notes :	The site was previously occupied by the 11-building academy of science complex (built piece-meal from 1916 to 1976), which was damaged beyond repair in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake