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.
— Curbed LA
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 finally give Los Angeles a permanent museum to celebrate and explore the history and art of films and filmmaking."
Here's also a construction photo with the Renzo Piano-designed LACMA buildings on the right, Fairfax Avenue on the left, and the Hollywood Hills in the background.
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