But even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming into focus as its futuristic new home rises in Exposition Park: a grand homage to one of the nation’s best-known filmmakers, and a massive repository for an eclectic collection of 100,000 paintings, photographs, book illustrations and comic book drawings. — The New York Times
Following a series of legal issues, criticism, construction delays, and the pandemic, the long-awaited MAD Architects-designed $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally seems to be on track to complete.
Since breaking ground in 2018, the project’s opening has been pushed back twice to 2023 and then 2025. Aside from external setbacks, the project’s slowed progress can be attributed to its complex and ambitious design.
As noted by The New York Times, the museum includes over 1,500 individually fabricated curved panels of fiberglass-reinforced polymer, three curved-glass elevators, an elliptical oculus, a rooftop garden, and two 299-seat theaters atop 281 seismic base isolators.
With the five-story, 300,000-square-foot museum, akin to a "low-lying spaceship," set to become a reality, the focus has shifted towards whether this site can draw the attendance that will make its wearisome journey worth it.
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Look at all that geofoam!
And that's just the campus/park not museum/green-roof...
Will it eventually pollute the site with microplastic?
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