California academy of sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a science museum—and scientific and educational institution—located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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Introduction The Academy of Sciences in California is the most current museum by Renzo Piano, which delivers an enlightened and sustainable solution to a building designed in the year 1934 with an avant-garde design. Nearly 10 years of work and $500 million were invested in this building, a masterpiece of sustainable architecture, which blends perfectly […]

By Clifford A. Pearson Renzo Piano calls his new building for the California Academy of Sciences a “soft machine.” “It sounds better in Italian, because machine brings to mind the process of making and Leonardo in his workshop,” he explains, pronouncing the Italian word macchina. The architect and his team at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) conceived of the 410,000-square-foot project as a manifestation of the academy’s mission to study, store, and exhibit the wonders of natural…

Completed in 2008 in San Francisco, United States. Images by Nic Lehoux, Tim Griffith, Shunji Ishida, Justin Lee, Tom Fox, SWA Group. Designing a great cultural and scientific institution in San Francisco, a city with a strong collective vocation for the environment, also meant...

California academy of sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution based in San Francisco. The Academy recently opened a new facility in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.

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