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Tucked away on the second floor of the architectural classic One Market Street, former headquarters of Southern Pacific Railroad are the San Francisco offices of Autodesk, the world leader in design software. Less than a year ago, Autodesk opened a space where it could display some of the most interesting pieces of work its customers were creating using Autodesk software solutions.

The Gallery is not large, but very well done, with beautiful displays of customer work, interactive media, and a very hands-on kind of feel. You couldn’t spend more than an hour here, but it would be an hour well spent if you are interested at all in how software design is improving the efficiency and creativity of architecture and engineering.

The Gallery is opened to the public on the first Wednesday of every month from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. But for an even richer experience, try to visit the Gallery on an evening it hosts Pecha Kucha San Francisco. Pecha Kucha, a style of multimedia presentation described as “20 slides, 20 seconds” are short presentations created to pitch new ideas and concepts. As they are only 6 minutes, 40 seconds long, they are rarely boring and often introduce some new and exciting ideas.

The Autodesk Gallery is located on the Second floor of One Market Street. It is opened to the public on the first Wednesday of every month from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.