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A San Francisco museum reinvented.

By |Posted Friday, Jan. 26, 2007, at 7:10 AM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.