As the site is under restoration with solar energy, recycled material and plants, in the vicinity of the San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, an article in the San Francisco Chronicle called it ‘one of the world’s most ambitious biodiversity equipment‘. The build surely deserves the tag coz architect Renzo Piano has used a copious amount of eco-friendly engineering traits in seven long years to resurrect the project.
With an estimate resurrection cost of about $484 California Academy of Sciences, is the most expensive museum project of the century, but in the distressing state of the environment, the museum sure plans to live out the enormous cost. The museum when reopens in 2008, targets to be the largest eco-friendly public building in the world.
Planning to pay for a platinum LEED green-building certification, if it materializes, California Academy of Sciences could be the first museum that’ll brag of enhancing nature instead of just stockpiling it within. The makeover of this heritage building is definitely a way ahead in the commitment for the environment from which other must take heed as well.
[Source: Wired]
