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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

The building Mario Botta designed for SFMOMA in 1995 remains the hero of this block of 3rd St. How does your new building, which rises behind it and faces the interior of the block, speak to the old one? I think the best way to say it is that we’re working with a dancing partner, and you have to be sure not to step on your partner’s feet. Our building needs to make a complimentary association. You don’t want more of the same. (via Four Questions for Craig Dykers - People - Dwell)

The building Mario Botta designed for SFMOMA in 1995 remains the hero of this block of 3rd St. How does your new building, which rises behind it and faces the interior of the block, speak to the old one?

I think the best way to say it is that we’re working with a dancing partner, and you have to be sure not to step on your partner’s feet. Our building needs to make a complimentary association. You don’t want more of the same.

(via Four Questions for Craig Dykers - People - Dwell)

Clearly! Dykers went on and on about the Blue Bottle coffee served at his presentation. Clearly SFMOMA is tipping its cap to Snøhetta with the modified O on the coffee cups. (via Four Questions for Craig Dykers - People - Dwell)

Clearly!

Dykers went on and on about the Blue Bottle coffee served at his presentation. Clearly SFMOMA is tipping its cap to Snøhetta with the modified O on the coffee cups.

(via Four Questions for Craig Dykers - People - Dwell)

“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?

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