Twenty-five teams responded to a request for qualifications to design 10 acres of new parkland in the Presidio which will connect the Presidio’s Main Post with Crissy Field, the Presidio Gateway project, and the Presidio Trust has just announced the finalists. The Gateway project also includes three acres of... Read More »

The design for Snøhetta’s new grand staircase to rise within SFMOMA which replaces Mario Botta’s original and will serve as a bridge between the existing atrium and the museum’s 235,000 square foot expansion has been rendered and is on display. The stair spans a single rise, from the ground... Read More »

SFMOMA’s Snøhetta-designed 225,000-square-foot expansion officially broke ground this morning. Tomorrow, a free four-day public countdown celebration begins. And starting June 3, the museum will be under construction and closed for two and a half years. When SFMOMA reopens in early 2016, the museum’s gallery space will have more than... Read More »

As roughly outlined in the endorsed Financial Framework for the Golden State Warriors proposed arena upon Piers 30-32, the preliminary plan for the development of Seawall (SWL) 330 across from the arena calls for two buildings rising up to 150 feet, one of which would be residential with up... Read More »

While Facebook has tapped Frank Gehry, the Golden State Warriors have snagged Snøhetta, the architecture firm behind SFMOMA’s expansion and the waterfront Norwegian National Opera and Ballet building pictured above, to design the Warriors’ proposed stadium upon Piers 30-32 and the development of Seawall (SWL) 330 across the street.... Read More »

Back in May the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) revealed the rough massings and early Snøhetta design for the expansion of the museum. Today, SFMOMA released refined designs for the building as rendered above and detailed below. The design of the interior spaces synthesizes the current Mario... Read More »

Comments and Responses to the Environmental Impact Report for the proposed SFMOMA expansion and Fire House One relocation to 935 Folsom Street have been published. While the law firm for KSSF Enterprises (owner of the expansion adjacent W Hotel) starts “by expressing support for the Project,” their 17... Read More »