HERE1 - The De Young Museum & The California Academy of Sciences

The opposition of two new museums in Golden Gate Park. By 2000 local, national, and world wide architectural commentators were taking note of San Francisco because it was in the midst of building important buildings designed by world class architects from outside the Bay Area. By 2008, two of these buildings were completed - the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Science, located opposite each other in Golden Gate Park
To me, the most interesting aspects of these buildings is not how they raise the bar for design in an architecturally parochial San Francisco. Rather, what interests me is how both buildings are fundamental opposites of each other and embrace as well as ignore the park in completely different ways.