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Oschin Center Tops Out

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Construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center—housing the space shuttle Endeavor—has topped out, reports the California Science Center. The $425 million project by ZGF Architects is expected to be completed in mid 2025.

Rendering of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. Courtesy California Science Center


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Anonymous said…
I recall the former LA Science and Industry museum when it was more fitting of something in Fresno or Bakersfield, California.

I watched a video yesterday about Egypt's new national museum, which is partly open and soon to be complete. I'm amazed at how very impressive things like that are in today's world. That has altered my impression of LACMA, if not other museums in LA too. So what was okay or passable, say, 20-50 years ago really doesn't really cut it nowadays.

The museums in Paris, as another example, observe what's going on in other cities and say, "Hold my beer."
October 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Anonymous said…
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has the scale it does because of the colossal statues it houses. No one would build a museum of that scale for paintings or even Greek statues. For the latter, a more domestic scale is appropriate. See the Frick Collection. The former Frick mansion is the perfect setting for an Old Masters painting collection.

In any case, the Zumthor building and GEM have more in common than you think:
(1) Both are not hermetically-sealed white boxes.
(2) Both engage with the outside to broaden the user experience.
(3) Both use processional spaces as display spaces (terrace galleries at LACMA and stairways at the GEM).
(4) Both filter the outside light in ways that mark the passage of time.

In my opinion, the Zumthor building does these things better than the GEM. The facade of the GEM shows how a lesser architect cannot handle the complexity of designing a building inside/out.
October 16, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Assuming a particular vlogger him or herself doesn't do it, the Blogger interface must automatically strip out postings that contain web addresses. Makes carrying on conversations or trying to explain things more difficult. fwiw, I think all the windows in Zumthor's building will technically or operationally hamstring the displaying of LACMA's collections. So LACMA will be less flexible than the new museum in Cairo is.
October 18, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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