Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences opens in San Francisco

By Victoria Watts Victoria Watts Victoria Watts 2008-09-30T09:14:00

The roof of the new California Academy of Sciences © Tim Griffith

The California Academy of Sciences, heralded as the “greenest building in the world” opened this weekend in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

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