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SPF:a unveils orange tree-inspired design for Anaheim Performing Arts Center in California

2018-02-19T19:44:00-05:00

After 20 years in the heart of Anaheim, California, the City National Grove of Anaheim venue will soon become the Anaheim Performing Arts Center. Today, SPF:a from Culver City unveiled their scheme for the new $500 million project.

For starters, the 500,000-square-foot campus will feature three theaters: a 2,000-seat concert hall, a 1,700-seat opera hall, and a 600-seat black box theatre. It'll also include a museum tower with an observatory set on a 24-foot podium, an outdoor amphitheater, a convention hall, office space, two restaurants, and lecture rooms.

Image courtesy of SPF:a.

The Anaheim Performing Arts Center in Anaheim, California by SPF:a. Image courtesy of SPF:a.

Featuring concentric circles and perforated copper-anodized cladding on the main structures, the campus pays tribute to Anaheim's agricultural history. After Anaheim's vineyards succumbed to disease in the late 19th century, the city invested in citriculture. “Anaheim’s socioeconomic drive...

Check out these new renderings of Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA

2017-09-30T08:00:00-04:00

The film academy on Wednesday drummed up excitement for its forthcoming museum on the Miracle Mile, releasing a batch of new renderings [...] Pritzker-Prize winner Renzo Piano and architecture firm Gensler are restoring and reworking the Streamline Moderne-style department store built in 1939 to house a 288-seat cinematheque and spaces for exhibitions, an entire floor devoted to an “Oscars experience,” restaurants, and special events.

Sitting right next to Renzo Piano's other LA projects, the expansion buildings for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the new — and not entirely uncontroversial — film academy complex on Wilshire Boulevard is further coming along. While construction of the 130-foot tall 'bubble' theater and inside the old May Company building is making progress, the academy this week announced a $50-million donation from philanthropists Cheryl and Haim Saban and also released a new set of renderings.

Take a gander at the new images below.

"When it opens in 2019," Curbed Los Angeles reports, "the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will...

Breaking up with Renzo...

2014-09-12T12:18:00-04:00

"And so, you know, having named my son after him, what was I going to do? Of course I said yes."

The Architect's Newspaper has an insightful interview with Zoltan Pali about his firm's decision to "consciously uncouple" with Renzo Piano's firm on the design for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts museum project. It's not always easy when you get matched up with someone, even if you've named your son after them...