Demolition has started to take place at the existing Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA) complex, where a collection of buildings designed by William Pereira and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates are expected to give way for a new structure designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor.
According to Urbanize.la, the institution began to demolish the existing complex as the new year got under way. The existing collection of Late Modernist and Postmodern buildings will be cleared to make room for a new single-level gallery space designed by Zumthor set to span over Wilshire Boulevard to the south.
The controversial plan for the 350,000-square-foot complex has been in the works for nearly 20 years and has been met with a wide range of resistance from critics, the media, and artists alike. The group Save LACMA recently announced plans to initiate a ballot proposal to force a more thorough public consideration of the project.
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That tabula is not only rasa, it's ambusti!
this is good for sustainabilty. jackhammer part manufacturers, wrecking ball aristans etc need jobs too
tearing down building, except if the replacement is a vast improvement, seems like a design failure
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