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| Page Museum, right, with new museum building, left. All: Weiss/Mandredi rendering |
Los Angeles County Supervisors have
approved the environmental impact report for Weiss/Manfredi's makeover of La Brea tar pits, the Page Museum, and eastern Hancock Park.
The architects likened the project to "Loops and Lenses" or a triple Möbius strip. It will renovate the aging Page Museum and add a second, two-story museum building with 40,000 sq. ft. and a new cafe.
Work is to be done in phases and is projected to span seven years.
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| Aerial perspective of Hancock Park with LACMA's David Geffen Galleries and the Academy Museum's David Geffen Theater at upper left |
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| Interior of the new museum building |
Comments
> the city a space big enough
Their square footage on Grand Ave is modest, but the large-blank-wall format that certain museums, primarily of contemporary art like in a MOCA, favor always puzzles me. Artworks do need space around them to visually breathe, but sometimes the amount of white wall seems excessive.
That format also gives the impression a museum has more space than artworks or than it knows what to do with.
It's technically (air space, not ground space) but also mainly financially difficult for MOCA to ever expand its Isozaki building. So I'm guessing the museum's additional square footage at 1st and Central for the next several decades will have to do.