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de Young Museum
San Francisco, California
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Concrete Helps Art Museum Become Work of
Art
The de Young Museum in San Francisco received the top honors in
the Sustainability and Institutional/Industrial categories at the
CEMEX
U.S. Building Awards. Built to replace the original museum
damaged in a 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the project is innovative
in design elements, construction materials, and techniques.
 One
of the first "Green Building"projects in San Francisco
utilizing high fly ash mixes, the building used 15,000 cubic yards
of concrete. It features a nine-story vertical post-tensioned tower
and state-of-the-art custom under-floor system featuring a system
of plates with rubber liners that allows the building to move during
seismic shifts.
The project reduced the original building's
footprint by 37 percent in order to return nearly two acres of open
space to a surrounding park. Yet, designers of the 293,000-square-foot
building still managed to double the amount of exhibition space.
Skylights and floor-to-ceiling glass reduce
power consumption and allow art to be viewed by natural light. The
de Young Museum, designed to last for 150 years, has a metal skin
of 50 percent copper in 7,000 embossed panels that over time will
begin to develop a green patina and will with the environment, truly
become a green building.
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| Project Developer: The
Corporation of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Architect: Herzog
& de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland
General Contractor: Fong
& Chan. Swinerton Builders
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