The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's proposed glass-enclosed building
Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner/The Boundary
Today the five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve a $650m extension of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This vote of approval also allocates $117.5m in funding and an associated $300m bond to the project.
This design was a significant rejiggering of Zumthors previous concept for the project, an organic “black flower” form building inspired by the work of the artist Jean Arp. The 368,000 sq. ft glass-enclosed, sand-coloured concrete building spans Wilshire Boulevard and replaces existing gallery buildings on Lacmas East Campus that date to the 1960s and 1980s.
The four buildings would cost around $500m to renovate, according to Lacmas director Michael Govan, who has spearheaded the building campaign. According to a spatial audit commissioned by the architectural designer and critic Joseph Giovannini, the project has 53,000sq. ft, or around 33%, less gallery space than the four buildings it would replace. (Lacma also has exhibition spaces in the Pavilion for Japanese Art, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at Lacma and the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Pavilion.)
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