California Academy of Sciences Museum- The Renzo Piano designed science museum located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, opened to the public this past weekend. This structure supposedly becomes the largest LEED Platinum certified building in the US. It houses many of its past exhibits along with an updated planetarium and sustainable dining from chefs like Charles Phan and Loretta Keller.
The structure has a living roof covered with 1.7 million native plants. Piano took great effort to design the roof to be representative of San Francisco’s rolling hills. In addition to the roofs natural habitat this design actually reduces by 10 degrees the buildings temperature. The roof’s cistern system captures 90-98 percent of the rainwater, with nearly 3.5 million gallons of rainwater being captured. I can not wait to visit this museum, read more here.
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