Lucas Update
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| Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, 2024 |
Urbanize has new construction photos of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography. At last word (Sep. 2022), the Lucas was to open in 2025. It remains anyone's guess whether the Lucas or LACMA's David Geffen Galleries will be the first to open its doors.
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L.A. is big, so it needs to go big, with fast, safe and affordable mass transit to all neighborhoods.
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Yevgenia Nayberg’s art card “NYC Superhero,” [link, below] features an imagined transit superhero in flight, illustrating how New York’s vast transportation system enables riders to metaphorically fly across the city.
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For one thing, LACMA will have right-angle windows under a huge curving concrete overhang roof. Top heavy and clunky. As for the Lucas, it will have a continuously curved facade with a sleek lobby that contains glass-chute elevators, reminiscent of a part of the Broad. The lack of images of the interiors of the two pedestals of LACMA is due to what?
When it comes to LACMA's new windows, my hunch is some of them will have to be eventually covered up just as the open sides of the atrium area of the old Ahmanson Gallery were. Meaning forget about whether LACMA's floor space will be smaller. It certainly will have noticeably less wall space.
Porcelains, Renaissance and Baroque bronze statuary, silver, books, glass, ivory, and on and on.
In the end, it will be subject to the same criticism as the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA). Here is the Guardian on the OCMA building:
"Like many projects from the Morphosis stable, it has resulted in a very elaborate and expensive envelope, shouting its rollercoaster acrobatics at full volume, wrapping a sequence of interior spaces that have little to do with the performative shell. Almost a generation in the making, it feels like the final death rattle of a bygone age, the last gasp of an era preoccupied with novel form for form’s sake. Perhaps it is fitting that this flimsy, paper-thin architecture is held together with tape."
On that note, there is a report that the reason that it has taken so long to install the facade is that the panels were difficult to install and some were damaged in the installation.
--- J. Garcin