Moscone Center Expansion

2020 Architecture Citation Award

The Moscone Center Expansion transforms Northern California’s largest convention center into a publicly spirited civic work of architecture. The traditional black box convention center is turned inside-out, using program, form, transparency, circulation, light, and landscape to connect visitors to the city, and the neighborhood to the activity in the building.

The jury was pleased with this handsome, responsibly urban, clearly navigable instance of an impossible building type, finding it to be a significant improvement over its predecessor. The project is especially successful at making the building meet the street; it serves visitors, and not the traffic whizzing by.

Architects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Mark Cavagnero Associates

Construction Manager/
General Contractor

Webcor Builders

Project/Construction Manager
SF Public Works

Interiors
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Owner
City and County of San Francisco

Civil Engineer
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Civil Engineer
Sherwood Design Engineering

Structural
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Structural
SOHA Engineers

Structural
Tipping Structural Engineers

Mechanical
WSP

Mechanical
WSP

Electrical
WSP

Plumbing
WSP

Lighting
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design

Acoustics
TEECOM

Audio Visual
TEECOM

Photography
Cesar Rubio

Photography
Matthew Millman

Photography
Tim Griffith