SFMOMA Rooftop Garden

San Francisco, USA

Photo © Henrick Kam

Photo © Bernard Andre

Photo © Henrik Kam

Photo © Richard Barnes

Photo © Henrik Kam

Photo © Bernard Andre

Architekci: Jensen Architects

Location: San Francisco, USA
Year: 2008

The SFMOMA’s rooftop garden is an open-air gallery defined by the intersection of sculpture, space and light. The entire back wall of the museum’s top floor is removed, allowing a seamless connection from gallery to garden. A large panoramic window at this new opening offers an elevated view to the garden, presenting it like a landscape painting inside the gallery. A glazed long-span bridge links the Museum to a garden pavilion that in turn opens out to the garden through large sliding glass panels. Surrounding the garden, lichen-covered lava-stone walls hide the city and frame the sky, providing an oasis for art in the midst of downtown San Francisco.