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Lucas Pays $46M for Downtown Real Estate

Rendering of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art oculus, Ma Yansong/MAD Architects

 CoStar News reports that a legal entity connected to the Hobson Lucas Family Foundation has paid $45.8 million for 1639 N. Main St., a four-acre industrial site in downtown Los Angeles. The article speculates that the property will be used as offsite storage for George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, expected to open in 2025.

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Anonymous said…
Meanwhile, although these images show another building still in a rough-draft stage, they imply upcoming technical, operational limitations. The space between the inner wall and what are going to be outer windows looks not too spacious. So the building will be further reduced in its potential usable square footage. Not a lot of objects work when their backdrop is glass looking out to a street. However, several years into the future, some of those windows perhaps will be blocked off with walls.

https://unframed.lacma.org/sites/default/files/attachments/135_20231129_3Z7_9233.jpg

https://unframed.lacma.org/sites/default/files/attachments/205_20231129_3Z7_9513.jpg
February 7, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Anonymous said…
Those LACMA images in the comment above look even worse than I thought. Who thought plain concrete was a good color? I preferred the sand-colored version with the chapel galleries. Such a misses opportunity.
February 7, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Anonymous said…
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/044/778/hatersgonnacat.jpg
February 7, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Anonymous said…
^ Michael Govan's LACMA 2025 may end up being a variation of Richard Brown's LACMA 1965.

However, unlike Brown over 50 years ago, Govan, since he's responsible for Peter Zumthor (Brown reportedly didn't want William Pereira) presumably won't quit out of indignation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/arts/design/peter-zumthor-lacma-architect.html

> It struck me that Zumthor was trying to prepare
> the Los Angeles public for a straightforward,
> even austere final product, without the precise
> and sometimes obsessive touches that give his
> best-known projects, such as the Kolumba museum
> in Cologne, Germany, an unusual combination of
> tactility, elegance and brawn.

> ...This raised an obvious question: After all
> that simplifying, which elements of the LACMA
> building will be recognizable as Zumthor details?

> “There are no Zumthor details any more,” he said
> flatly.
February 8, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Anonymous said…
late to this chain, but I cannot believe that the anti-Govan crowd is so blinded by disgust that they mistake a rendering of the Lucas Museum for LACMA. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
February 20, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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