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Oakland Museum Rooftop Terrace Aerial View

An Ambitious Revamp Aims to Connect the Oakland Museum’s Cascading Gardens with the Surrounding City

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

August 19, 2019

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The $20 million revitalization will be completed next year.

St. Mary's Student Chapel by Mark Cavagnero Associates

Albany, California

John King

June 5, 2019

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A serene, meditative sanctuary beckons to young people on the campus of a private Catholic high school in California.

Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera by Mark Cavagnero Associates

San Francisco

Lydia Lee

April 1, 2017

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The 94-year-old San Francisco Opera wanted a secondary venue to attract the next generation of operagoers.

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired by Mark Cavagnero Associates

San Francisco

Peter Slatin

October 1, 2016

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In its San Francisco headquarters, an agency employs subtle design strategies to better serve its visually impaired clientele.

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.”

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