The opening of MAD’s highly-anticipated Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has been delayed until the year 2025 over apparent issues in the construction supply chain, according to a report published yesterday in the LA Times.
In an interview with the paper, the museum’s director Sandra Jackson-Dumont indicated that, while construction was still moving forward “in all areas,” an inability to obtain the necessary geofoam filling elements, light fixtures, and elevator components has coupled with existing on-site safety-related delays to bump its debut again by another two years.
The museum’s opening had already been pushed back due to Covid-19 protocols after first breaking ground in 2018.
As ARTNews reported, this is a problem that has also affected the OMA-led expansion of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Gallery and the $60 million overhaul of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. Supply chain issues have caused headaches for many architects over the turbulent past 18 months, particularly in the residential sector, and have now impacted the $1 billion museum project, which did at least avoid incurring any additional costs, according to its director.
The Times also reported that the structure’s 1,500 polymer panels have begun being installed, as well as the finishing touches of its 80,000-square-foot fourth-floor gallery and the beginnings of its two theaters and landscaping program designed by Studio-MLA. The building's mechanical systems are also being roughed-in. Jackson-Dumont says it’s “not just a construction site. We’re building an institution, a 200-plus-year proposition. And we’re doing it amidst the most uncertain moments in our time.”
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The GFRP used in this project looks nuts. Would love if the fabrication team eventually gives an insight into the design + fab process.
3d model --> cast panel --> profit
hehe true. Stantec, WP Moore and Kreysler & Associates may just be killing it. That said, a peek into their details and their BIM workflow would be great.
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