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A love letter to Calder’s Lone Yellow which (fret not, lovers!) will come back on view in our expanded building. Dear Calder mobile formerly hanging in the SFMOMA atrium, I love you—come back to me! How I long for your graceful welcome stirring quietly in the air currents. How I miss your impeccable balance, your monumental whimsy. You are stately and understated, meticulous and marvelous, peerless in your simplicity and precision and wit. You remind me what perfection means, and in your presence I am both awed and exalted. I should never have taken you for granted. Come back! Please—come back! XOXO JSV

A love letter to Calder’s Lone Yellow which (fret not, lovers!) will come back on view in our expanded building.

Dear Calder mobile formerly hanging in the SFMOMA atrium,

I love you—come back to me! How I long for your graceful welcome stirring quietly in the air currents. How I miss your impeccable balance, your monumental whimsy. You are stately and understated, meticulous and marvelous, peerless in your simplicity and precision and wit. You remind me what perfection means, and in your presence I am both awed and exalted. I should never have taken you for granted. Come back! Please—come back!

XOXO JSV

What I like best about the schematic design for the transformation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is that it prods us to think about how buildings function, not merely how they look. In other words, that the experience of architecture counts for more than images on a page or on a screen. Read more: Proposal for SFMOMA expansion on the right track

What I like best about the schematic design for the transformation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is that it prods us to think about how buildings function, not merely how they look. In other words, that the experience of architecture counts for more than images on a page or on a screen.

Read more: Proposal for SFMOMA expansion on the right track

“A challenge museums have now is how much are they about making social spaces,” Craig Dykers, the principal architect at Snohetta, said. “Is it a building filled with art with some people in it, or a building filled with people with some art in it? There needs to be enough social space to make people feel comfortable in what can be an austere environment, the white box. You shouldn’t feel like you need to be quiet in the public spaces.” Read more: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion Aims for Friendly - NYTimes.com

“A challenge museums have now is how much are they about making social spaces,” Craig Dykers, the principal architect at Snohetta, said. “Is it a building filled with art with some people in it, or a building filled with people with some art in it? There needs to be enough social space to make people feel comfortable in what can be an austere environment, the white box. You shouldn’t feel like you need to be quiet in the public spaces.”

Read more: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion Aims for Friendly - NYTimes.com

In this virtual tour of the future SFMOMA, you can see how the expanded building will dramatically open up the museum’s relationship with the city. As Curbed SF puts it, “Brace yourself. The plans laid out today for the SFMOMA expansion by Snøhetta’s Craig Dykers are dazzling and unexpected.” We can’t wait ‘till 2016!

We’ve just unveiled new designs for SFMOMA’s expansion, planned to begin in the summer of 2013. See all of the images and get a virtual video tour of the new building on our blog, Open Space. What do you think?

We’ve just unveiled new designs for SFMOMA’s expansion, planned to begin in the summer of 2013. See all of the images and get a virtual video tour of the new building on our blog, Open Space.

What do you think?

Two weeks from today we’ll finally see the full design of the expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but one detail already has surfaced: the location of Richard Serra’s immense sculpture “Sequence.” Read more: SFMOMA will house Serra’s ‘Sequence’ in new wing

Two weeks from today we’ll finally see the full design of the expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but one detail already has surfaced: the location of Richard Serra’s immense sculpture “Sequence.”

Read more: SFMOMA will house Serra’s ‘Sequence’ in new wing

Today, the city approved SFMOMA’s big expansion plans: the museum will add space to the existing building, but there will also be an 18-foot wide pedestrian walkway, a new gallery on Howard, and additional public spaces.  In other words… IT’S ON! (via City Approves SFMOMA Expansion: Terraced Promenade, Here We Come! - Culture Feed - The Bay Citizen)

Today, the city approved SFMOMA’s big expansion plans: the museum will add space to the existing building, but there will also be an 18-foot wide pedestrian walkway, a new gallery on Howard, and additional public spaces. 

In other words… IT’S ON!

(via City Approves SFMOMA Expansion: Terraced Promenade, Here We Come! - Culture Feed - The Bay Citizen)

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