A rendering of what the building will look like when complete.Snøhetta

One day, not too long ago, Craig Dykers was walking down the street in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. As the principal and co-founder of architecture firm Snøhetta, he was there to check out progress on one of the firm’s big projects, the redesign of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Looking up, he was admiring the progress on the building’s facade when a stranger came and stood next to him. “You know how it is in cities, when you look up, everyone else looks up, too,” says Dykers. “She looked up and then said to me—and she didn’t know who I was—‘Oh, it’s beautiful isn’t it?’ That made me feel so good.”

The facade in question really is beautiful, and thankfully, as it’s the most visible part of Snøhetta’s major revamp of Mario Botta’s brick-clad design that was built in 1995. The museum has been under construction since June 2013, and it’s just now being wrapped in shimmering fiberglass panels that look as though they were plucked from an icy Pacific ocean and carefully arranged on the side of the building....Continue Reading

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