2009 News
SF MOMA Rooftop Sculpture Garden wins AIA Design Award
Each year since 1982, the American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) has celebrated outstanding architecture through the AIACC Design Awards program.
The rooftop garden for a modern art museum in San Francisco 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.
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CMG's Willett Moss Architect to Artist
A catalog for the exhibition "Made In Rome: The Aleatoric Landscape" held at 3A Gallery in San Francisco, composed of sculptures and drawings by Willett Moss, inspired by and done during his studies in Landscape Architecture at The American Academy of Rome in 2006. The publication contains photographs of the work and the exhibit in 2009 along with an essay and other writings by the artist.
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Crack Garden featured in Landscape World
Landscape World is a publication from Seoul, Korea that specializes in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. CMG was pleased to be featured as part of their latest ASLA 2009 Professional Awards Issue.
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Mint Plaza featured in Topos
A once derelict urban space in downtown San Francisco today serves as a vibrant plaza catering for the needs of local people. The design also provides a prototype for a city-wide solution to stormwater management.
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Ohlone Community College wins Gold Award
2009 Gold winner of Building Design + Construction's "Build Team Award". Winners featured in the "Building Team Awards" program represent the new horizons of foward-thinking design coupled with astute construction management.
"Ohlone College Newark Campus is the Greenest College in the World!" was the bold statement and official tagline of the festivities surrounding the August 2008 Grand Opening.
An outdoor ampitheater is surrounded by native grasses and trees selected for drought-resistant qualities. The landscape design reduces the amount of water needed for irrigation by 20-30%.
AIA NY Exhibition Opening: New Practices San Francisco
New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York's annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies - both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.
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SF MOMA Rooftop Sculpture Garden Grand Opening
SF MOMA's long-awaited space for large-scale sculpture features a combination of well-known, rarely seen, and recently acquired works from the museum's collection.
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Treasure Island has been selected by the Clinton Climate Initiative
Treasure Island has been selected by the Clinton Climate Initiative as a Model Project for its Climate Positive Development Program. With support and collaboration from the CCI and US Green Building Council, Treasure Island is one of 16 selected cities that together will create a Climate Positive community for one million people.
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