The Architect · Nora · San Francisco
de Young Museum
I was not convinced by the renders. The building won me on site. The copper is already patinating green in patches and it looks better every year.
Herzog & de Meuron's 2005 copper-clad museum. I come for the twisted tower and the way the perforated copper skin reads like a material diagram of the park's eucalyptus canopy.
— Nora, The Architect
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