Five months after holding a ceremonial groundbreaking, the first signs of vertical construction are now visible at the new home of OCMA at Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts. [...]
The approximately $73-million project expands OCMA's square footage by approximately 50 percent when compared to the museum's former home.
— Urbanize Los Angeles
Designed by Morphosis Architects, the Orange County Museum of Art's new home at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif. appears to be making progress, according to a new construction photo published by Urbanized LA.
The new 52,000-square-foot building will nearly double OCMA's current exhibition space and provide expanded access to the institution's permanent collection of modern and contemporary art from Southern California and the Pacific Rim.
"The overall design of the building addresses the need for museum space to be both flexible and functional as well as inviting and memorable," explains the project description from Morphosis Architects. "A spacious roof terrace, equivalent in size to 70 percent of the building’s footprint, serves as an extension of the galleries with open-air spaces that can be configured for installations, a sculpture garden, outdoor film screenings, or events."
The new OCMA destination is expected to open in 2021.
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*Where* is the art?
Actually, I read that half of the 52k will be for gallery space. You see what's happening to museums—they're being designed as event/gathering places, where art plays a secondary role. That is what the renderings emphasize, not the building's function as a container for art exhibition. As is the case in Zumthor's LACMA. And like LACMA, this one is self-effacing.
If the people don't come?
I'm not crazy about those fuzzed contour lines on the interior, nor do they offset the weight of that mass, which feels oppressive.
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