If Brougher and other academy leaders can compel the architects to reconcile the clear potential of the new wing's interior spaces with its unconvincing, unwieldy exterior, they may be able to salvage the design before construction begins.
If not, they may well have an architectural flop on their hands when the museum opens in 2017 — not to mention the third disappointing Piano building within a quarter-mile radius.
— latimes.com
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The Pritzker is apparently the Kiss of Death when it comes to the quality of work. Architects should be forced to retire upon winning one.
that's why steven holl can't win won. he's not done yet.
The old May Co. building on the right is looking better and better...
Can Renzo Piano please find somewhere else to build? LA has already enured enough.
Please.
It's like some big alien tick, extending it's feeding tentacles to suck the blood out of the existing May Co. building.
Somehow reminds me of the Bathtub in Amsterdam by BenthemCrouwel.
"Giant Albino Ladybug Towing Modernist Jukebox"
Fire all of them who're responsible for hiring Renzo Piano
AMPAS, despite the huge income generated by the Oscars broadcast, will NOT come up with the funds to build this. The membership, mostly older and conservative, have been hit up too many times.
A bit of history. The AMPAS library and research center was a remodel of an abandoned water palnt. The membership raised $10million for that.
AMPAS also commited to it's film archive and film center on Vine & Fountain. More money asked
This new film history museum looks to spend a lot more money. The members are not that rich and I dont expect Spielberg to help out like he did the firrst time.
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I actually usually like Piano. The academy of science building is really fun and well done IMO. This is very weird looking. I'd bet he wasn't involved much with the design. Doesn't seem like a piano building.
How about that parasitic alien Borg cube he attached to the side of the Fogg Museum at Harvard?
Just FYI, the project is in advanced schematic now and chances that it will get built are really high. I actually love the public space below the theater, that is a gesture we could get used to seeing more of in LA
I'd like to see more detailed information on the plaza design, and I am open to being proved wrong, but it sure looks like another vapid concrete wasteland under a hovering alien spaceship. This is what passes for urban space these days. No thanks.
Not that LA is so pristine with its architecture, Mainly disliked and condemned, this is looking better and I agree with sameolddoctor. It might be the ever so missing link and will tie in all the disparate parts of LACMA. Even Zumthor's if ever.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/see_how_the_movie_museum_will_transform_the_miracle_mile_1.php
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