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New de Young Museum Design by Herzog & de Meuron Engineering - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
New de Young Museum Design by Herzog & de Meuron Engineering - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
New de Young Museum Design by Herzog & de Meuron Engineering by Fong & Chan Seismic Engineering! The new de Young was engineered with the latest seismic standards. Each vertical steel beam was set in a seismic isolator, so that it had
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Reopened October 15, 2005
Infrastructure of creating a parking garage, while restoring the historic aspects of the Midwinter Fair Valley
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Tons of Dirt Moved!
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10th Ave. Entrance
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Once Controversial South Entrance/Exit
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Stow Lake Boat House Opened in 1893 Torn down in 1937 as a WPA Project
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Boating Concession Reestablished in1943
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Alpine-style Chalet designed in 1946, completed in 1949
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John McLaren Rhododendron Dell
Statue Theft Attempt - December 1953
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Madrid
- Dismantled Monastery Cloister - 1930
Church Portal
Santa María de Óvila[
Monastery Complex begun in 1181, by the Cistercian Order of Monks. Church consecrated 1213. Buildings altered and added to for the next 5 Centuries. Confiscated in1820. Abandoned in 1835. Purchased by William Randolph Hearst - 1931
Santa Maria de Ovila
Church Portal Julia Morgan
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Haslett Warehouse - Beach & Hyde Sts.
10,000 stone, weighing approximately 2,200 tons, hastily removed from Spain and shipped in 11 ship- loads to San Francisco for a ground-breaking at Wyntoon in July, 1931.
Hearst wavers, and the stones are put in storage at the Haslett Warehouse. Hearst files for bankruptcy in 1937, having never paid the storage fees at the warehouse.
Julia Morgan Plan for Wyntoon
Covered Swimming Pool
1940, Hearst tried to get rid of the stones - no takers. August, 1941, Herbert Fleishhacker persuades Hearst to give the stones to the City of San Francisco, in exchange for paying the 10 years of warehouse storage debt. Stones are moved behind the Japanese Tea Garden.
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