{"id":1849,"date":"2005-10-14T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2005-10-14T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:02:20","slug":"the_new_de_youn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"The New De Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/chronicle\/pictures\/2005\/10\/09\/cm-220x321-deyoung10.jpg\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/deyoung\/\">Zahid Sardar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>With its elegant low-slung copper-clad building in a sophisticated garden setting and gravity-defying, twisting tower, the M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park will achieve every museum&#8217;s goal &#8212; to educate the public &#8212; about art as well as architecture.<br \/>\nNot since Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s futuristic Marin Civic Center was completed in 1957 has the Bay Area seen a significant new civic structure that does not affect a classical or postmodern pose. For architecturally conservative San Francisco, it&#8217;s the equivalent of St. Louis&#8217; 1960s stainless steel arch, a gateway to bigger, more exhilarating ideas in a post-Bilbao Guggenheim age.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahid Sardar: With its elegant low-slung copper-clad building in a sophisticated garden setting and gravity-defying, twisting tower, the M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park will achieve every museum&#8217;s goal &#8212; to educate the public &#8212; about art as well as architecture. Not since Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s futuristic Marin Civic Center was completed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}