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Exploratorium at Piers 15 & 17
Exploratorium at Piers 15 & 17
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Exploratorium at Piers 15 & 17
San Francisco, CA, United States
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
The Exploratorium Museum relocation to San Francisco’s waterfront has given new life to the historic Piers 15 and 17 and set a precedent for revitalizing the City’s aging piers. Founded by physicist Frank Oppenheimer in 1968 as the of museum of ‘Science, Art and Human Perception’, it pioneered the concept of a hands-on interactive science museum, inspiring institutions worldwide. It’s the first major pier rehabilitation on the Embarcadero following the Loma Prieta earthquake and freeway demolition, which divided downtown from the waterfront. Converting a crumbling parking lot to an outdoor education exhibit space centered around a new lagoon demonstrates how the integration of infrastructure and landscape can be transformative for cities.
Since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that led to the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway, San Francisco’s downtown and its waterfront have undergone a process of reconnection, sparking a renaissance through the conversion of abandoned industrial piers to new waterfront uses. The Exploratorium’s relocation from its remote Presidio location to Piers 15 and 17 in downtown San Francisco’s rapidly changing Embarcadero waterfront neighborhood is the City’s first effort to repurpose historic pier bulkhead infrastructure, and has played a symbolic and precedential role in that transformation.
Since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that led to the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway, San Francisco’s downtown and its waterfront have undergone a process of reconnection, sparking a renaissance through the conversion of abandoned industrial piers to new waterfront uses. The Exploratorium’s relocation from its remote Presidio location to Piers 15 and 17 in downtown San Francisco’s rapidly changing Embarcadero waterfront neighborhood is the City’s first effort to repurpose historic pier bulkhead infrastructure, and has played a symbolic and precedential role in that transformation.
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