Moscone Center Expansion
Moscone Center Expansion
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + Mark Cavagnero Associates
ARCHITECTS
Mark Cavagnero Associates, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
ACOUSTICS
Teecom
CONTRACTOR
Webcor Builders
MEP
Wsp
LANDSCAPE
Cmg Landscape Architecture
DESIGN TEAM
Craig Hartman, Faia, Design Partner. Carrie Byles, Faia, Managing Partner. Mark Sarkisian, Pe, Se, Structural Partner. Keith Boswell, Faia, Technical Partner. Mark Schwettmann, Aia, Design Director. Steven Sobel, Faia, Managing Director. Eric Long, Pe, Se, Structural Director. Kye Archuleta, Aia, Project Manager. Kotting Luo, Aia, Design Architect. Sandi Greig, Aia, Technical Architect. Neville Mathias, Structural Engineer. John Gordon, Structural Engineer.
ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT
Mark Cavagnero Associates
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
San Francisco Travel
STRUCTURAL
Tipping Structural Engineers
CLIENT
City And County Of San Francisco. San Francisco General Services Agency–conventions And Facilities Department. Moscone Expansion District
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
San Francisco Public Works
CIVIL
Sherwood Design Engineers, Wsp
LIGHTING
Hlb Lighting Design, Wsp
MANUFACTURERS
Skyfold, Terrazzo & Marble, Bok Modern
PHOTOGRAPHS
Matthew Millman, Tim Griffith, Cesar Rubio
AREA
504 Ft²
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
San Francisco, United States
CATEGORY
Community Cente
Moscone Center is an expansive collection of light-filled spaces that accommodates a variety of convention-related activities while making strong connections between the typically inward-looking visitor function with the public life of the city.
Designed by SOM with Mark Cavagnero Associates, the expansion was constructed in multiple phases while the existing buildings remained operational.
Located in the heart of San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood—home to SFMOMA, El Museo Mexicano, Museum of the African Diaspora, And the Contemporary Jewish Museum—the Moscone Center spans close to 20 acres across two blocks on either side of Howard Street, sited between the frequently visited Yerba Buena Gardens and the Children’s Garden.
The Center gains a new civic presence through a clear horizontal form floating above the ground, framed in white metal and infilled with transparent and fritted glazing that bathes internal circulation in filtered light.
These artfully patterned these facades create a distinct character while minimizing artificial lighting within.
At the ground, formerly blank or recessed frontages now hug the sidewalks, with maximum transparency and permeability in a new Visitor’s Center, retail spaces, lobbies, and a 75-foot-tall circulating atrium.
At the sky, a luminous sculptural roof runs the length of Howard Street and frames one of four new terraces, creating views of the skyline and emphasizing the building’s horizontal proportion.
Moscone Center is one of the most compact, efficient, and sustainable convention centers in the U.S.
It has the lowest carbon footprint per visitor in the world and is the only convention space in the nation to achieve LEED Platinum.
It also has the largest rooftop solar panel array in San Francisco, which provides nearly 20 percent of the Center’s power, and an aggressive groundwater and grey water system that allows the center to use less water than it did prior to expansion, with enough left over to irrigate the Yerba Buena Gardens and supply part of the city’s street cleaning fleet.
