Archinect - News 2024-12-22T04:19:06-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/126775111/uncompromising-design-part-of-newly-disclosed-reasons-for-why-lucas-museum-didn-t-go-to-sf Uncompromising design part of newly disclosed reasons for why Lucas museum didn't go to SF Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-05-05T15:34:00-04:00 >2015-05-12T22:54:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/28/2809d5a362ebec8be8a8ba3aa0f89bdf?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>When the Presidio Trust announced last year that it was rejecting George Lucas&rsquo; bid to build a museum at Crissy Field, its leaders didn&rsquo;t reveal that three days earlier they had been prepared to grant the &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; creator the land he sought. [...] if he agreed to change the look of his desired museum, a mock-classical temple that at one point had four ceremonial domes. [...] Five months later, Lucas was bound for Chicago.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>