AEG has announced a new “nine-figure” overhaul of Los Angeles’ iconic renamed Crypto.com Arena (formerly The Staples Center) and adjacent L.A. LIVE pedestrian mall in a two-year project that promises to “provide fans with entirely new ways to experience their favorite sports and music event” once it is completed in 2024.
Urbanize LA has more on the planned renovations, which include a new entrance at the concourse level, added restaurant offerings, LED displays, reimagined City View Terrace, upgraded locker rooms, and the creation of new private suites and a multi-level Tunnel Cub said to be reserved for the arena’s many nightly VIP guests.
Ron Turner (Gensler) and Dan Meis (MEIS), the two architects who worked on the original Staples Center project 25 years ago, will return to oversee the construction, which they say is meant to provide fans with an enhanced entertainment experience for the next three decades.
“As one of the original designers, this is an exciting time to be once again partnered with Dan Meis on this reimagination of Crypto.com Arena,” Turner, who now serves Gensler’s Global Director of Sports, said in a statement from the LA office. “This partnership created an amazing building design that has stood the test of time in the Sports and Entertainment Capital of the World.”
L.A. LIVE is also managed by AEG and is currently undertaking its own $1 billion-plus overhaul and will be further integrated into the arena as a result of the project, select portions of which should be ready by the start of the 2023 NBA season. Meis stated that it was “a rare opportunity for an architect to revisit a building he has designed.” He and Turner will be reunited for the first time since departing from their erstwhile Turner Meis venture to form his own studio practice in 2007.
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Are they getting paid in NFT, or Dogecoin?
You name a building with a derivative of a word that means 'burial chamber'?
Not even derivative. Most people go ahead and call it The Crypt.
LAMEness
Is "a multi-level Tunnel Cub" supposed to read "a multi-level Tunnel Club"?
You're not one of those elitists who worry about spelling, are you Nam? ;o]
Also is the club really going to be in a multi-level tunnel? Never been to one of those...
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