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The Terrace, California Academy of Sciences

Heart of Lightness: For a new café, an architect re-engineers the DNA of the California Academy of Sciences next door.

Lydia Lee

February 11, 2016

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For a new café, an architect re-engineers the DNA of the California Academy of Sciences next door.

The Terrace, California Academy of Sciences

Heart of Lightness: For a new caf', an architect re-engineers the DNA of the California Academy of Sciences next door

Lydia Lee

July 16, 2015

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For a new caf', an architect re-engineers the DNA of the California Academy of Sciences next door.

SFJAZZ Center by Mark Cavagnero Associates

San Francisco

Lydia Lee

May 16, 2015

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For the first permanent home of SFJAZZ in its 35-year history, organization founder and executive artistic director Randall Kline sought to bridge that dichotomy.

SFJAZZ Center

Take it from the top: A new center for jazz in San Franciso was designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates to invite the public in for more than musical riffs.

Lamar Anderson

May 16, 2013

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As a latecomer to San Francisco's performing-arts district, SFJAZZ, a 30-year-old concert series, had to figure out how to fit into the Hayes Valley neighborhood.

Durant Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Cavagnero refreshes and subtly reorganizes a century-old building in the historic core of a storied campus.

John King

November 15, 2011

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When architect John Galen Howard mapped a Beaux-Arts plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus in the early 20th century, one of the first buildings erected in its spirit was Durant Hall—a two-story steel-framed structure completed in 1911 and wrapped in granite along classical lines.

Oakland Museum of California Renovation

Mark Cavagnero Associates subtly renews a 41-year-old museum designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo.

Sarah Amelar

December 16, 2010

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In 1968, the year before the Oakland Museum opened, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote: “In terms of architecture and environment, Oakland may be the most thoughtfully revolutionary museum in the world.”

Sava Pool in San Francisco

October 1, 2009

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The Sava Pool, designed for both recreational and competitive functions, is situated at the southern end of a public park between a vehicular thoroughfare and a residential neighborhood.

Clovis Memorial District Conference Center

A veteran center gets a much-needed upgrade.

October 1, 2008

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The original Clovis Memorial District conference center, which had been incrementally added to over the years, housed a number of meeting rooms, but lacked a central entry, or gathering space.