Critics have had mixed reactions to the Snøhetta-designed extension of Mario Botta's San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with descriptions ranging from a "good citizen" to a "baked alaska slumped on the skyline".
Now with almost triple the amount of gallery space, the museum welcomed back the public on 14 May 2016 after a three-year renovation and expansion undertaken by New York and Oslo firm Snøhetta.

In The New York Times, reporter Jori Finkel simply stated that it resembles a "cruise ship".
But in a piece for Curbed, Alexandra Lange said the enlarged SFMOMA sits comfortably in the surroundings of the city's South of Market district. "The Snøhetta building reads as a good citizen, adding texture and a refreshing lightness to a dense urban quilt," she said.
But some critics don't think the relationship between the contemporary 10-storey extension and the original brick-clad Postmodern building works.
"The pair do not make a particularly happy marriage," Wainwright said. "It makes you wonder why one was deferentially kept at the expense of the other, while being considerably lobotomised in the process."
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