The new SFMOMA, view from Yerba Buena Gardens
The new SFMOMA, view from Yerba Buena Gardens © Henrik Kam, courtesy SFMOMA.

While not open to the public until May 14, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has officially unveiled its completed redesign to the press: a massive, iceberg-like addition by Snøhetta, conjoined to the original Mario Botta pomo building.

  • Christopher Hawthorne for the Los Angeles Times is at once pleased by Snøhetta's design and disappointed by the new museum writ large:
  • Oliver Wainwright for The Guardian finds the whole thing flimsy, clumsy, and disparages its resemblance to Gap storefronts:
  • Julie V. Iovine for The Wall Street Journal takes the redesign in stride, praising its unabashed odd-coupling and accommodation to today's mobile museum-goer:
  • Brock Keeling for Curbed appears to have absolutely zero critical thoughts on the redesign:

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