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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. 


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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.
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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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