The Architect · Nora · San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Piano's conceit is that the building is invisible — it's the park, continued. From inside the de Young's tower across the Music Concourse you can read the green roof as a rolling
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, 2008. The undulating living roof is the move I keep returning to — Piano took the building's footprint and lifted the park's topography over it.
— Nora, The Architect
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