Designer Tim Hennes worked with the Steinhart Aquarium's resident exhibit designers to create many of the temporary Academy of Sciences exhibits - condensed in size from 26,000 to 12,000 square feet - which will remain in place until the new Academy structures are complete in 2008. Hennes' exhibit spaces and interior architecture - constructed from plastics, bent-ply, glass, metal and a wide variety of less-identifiable substances - help house the publicly-viewable portion of the over 18 million natural history specimens housed for the next several years at the downtown Temporary Academy.

+ Temporary Academy: 875 Howard St., San Francisco
+ tel 415.321.8000