Notes:
Notes:
"With substantial earthquake damage to its original building, the de Young closed in 2000 and work began on the new building by the Pritzker prize-winning Swiss architecture team of Herzog and de Meuron. Even before it opened in October, the museum was drawing scathing commentary from some locals for its extreme architecture. The porous copper-clad building, which will gradually develop a green patina, has a long horizontal spread that juts up in an odd, pyramidal tower at one end. Amid the heavy greenery of the park, the tower from some angles resembles an Aztex ruin. The finely detailed building is beautiful and unsettling."