QUAKE-PROOF

  • San Francisco’s de Young Museum was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. Plans are well along to rebuild. But “if local community activists have their way, the design for the ambitious $135 million project will soon be subjected to a process that many observers believe could doom it. And although the proposed building, by acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, has been hailed by those culturally-in-the-know as a masterpiece of contemporary Modernism, it has come in for some blistering criticism from an unexpected quarter: other architects.” – Metropolis