California Academy of Sciences

Year

2008

Architect

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano

Type

building

Piano's design poses a simple question: what if a museum were a landscape? The answer is a 2.5-acre living roof of native California plants, undulating over seven hills that correspond to the functions below: the planetarium dome, the rainf …

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