Cubism

Daniel Libeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, located in the heart of the budding gallery district of Yerba Buena in downtown San Francisco, has enjoyed a remarkably smooth transition into the urban fabric. In a city that tends to be relatively conservative when it comes to architecture on the edge of mainstream design, the museum has not been confronted with much resistance, despite its ambitious forms.

Tucked in an alley, the building’s tour-de-force (a large tilted cube) cohabits peacefully with an eclectic collection of glass and metal skyscrapers, brick church and urban park. For more images, click here (right), here (right) and here.