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Sony Metreon

San Francisco

The Metreon completes the southern edge of the Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade and houses 15 theaters, an IMAX theater, and a variety of technological retail venues, all connected by centralized escalators and grand staircases funneling through the atrium space.

The exterior is a combination of metal panels, colored spandrel glass, a highly detailed curtain wall, and skylight system. The structure is a steel moment frame built over an existing column-free ballroom below grade. The plan integrated existing below grade egresses from the Moscone Convention Center.

This project was completed as a joint venture between Handel Architects and SMWM of San Francisco.

Awards: 2001 PROJECT OF THE YEAR, National Commercial Builders Council; 2000 AWARD OF MERIT, AIA New York State; 2000 AWARD FINALIST, Business Week / Architectural Record Awards
Client: Millennium Partners; WDG Companies
Publications: "SoMa Wakes Up," Grid, March / April 2000.; "Sony Metreon," Architectural Record, November 1999.; "Sony Builds Big-Box Entertainment," The Wall Street Journal, 23 June 1999.; "The Convergence of Retail and Entertainment," CMDaec, May 1999.