SWA Group, the Firm Behind Renzo Piano's Green Roof

Isn’t that the way with we great unwashed masses? All this talk about the flashy new California Academy of Sciences building, which we attribute solely to starchitect Renzo Piano, like he was out there hammering every nail and planting every hydrangea in its rooftop meadow all himself. But occasionally we should look behind the intoxicating luster of these architecture heavies and see the people who are doing the real lifting. Such it is with SWA