Renzo Piano designs glass dome for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
by sadia_badhon | August 20, 2019 8:07 am
[1]Photo courtesy Academy Museum
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures[2] in Los Angeles will be one of the world’s premier institutions devoted to movies and moviemaking when it opens next year.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano with Renzo Piano Building Workshop[3], the museum site will feature a major renovation and expansion to the 1939 Streamline Moderne May Company building, now the Saban Building in the city’s Miracle Mile neighborhood.
The historic Saban Building will be paired with a new spherical addition to the north, with views of the Hollywood Hills. The 27,871-m2 (300,000-sf) museum will feature more than 4645 m2 (50,000 sf) of gallery space for both an immersive permanent exhibition and diverse temporary exhibitions, two film and performance theaters, a state-of-the-art education studio, and dynamic spaces for public and special events.
The 4181-m2 (45,000-sf) sphere will be made of precast and steel-reinforced concrete and steel. The glass dome consists of 1500 flat, low-iron, laminated, tempered, shingled glass panels cut in 146 different shapes and sizes fabricated in Austria.
- [Image]: https://www.constructionspecifier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Opener-17.jpg
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/
- Renzo Piano Building Workshop: http://www.rpbw.com/
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