Architects:Gensler, Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Area :98700 m²

Year :2021

Photographs :Nic Lehoux

Manufacturers :  Draper, Zone Display CasesDraper

Structural Engineering :Buro Happold

MEP :Buro Happold

lighting Consultant :Buro Happold, Fisher Marantz Stone

Acoustics :Arup

Vertical Transportation :Kiran Consulting Group, HKA Elevator Consulting, Lerch Bates

Traffic Consultant :Gibson Transportation Consulting

Sustainability :Transsolar, Atelier Ten

Project Manager :Paratus Group

Design : Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Gensler (architect of record) and SPF:a

Design Team : M.Carroll, S.Scarabicchi (partners in charge), L.Priano (associate in charge), D.Hammerman, J.Jones K.Joyce, with S.Casarotto, E.Donadel, S.Ishida (partner), M.Matthews, P.Pelanda, T.Perkins, E.Trezzani (partner) and N.Cheng, G.Dattola, E.Ludwig, B.Ruswick, H.Travers, A.Zambrano; F.Cappellini, I.Corsaro, D.Lange, F.Terranova (models)

Interior Facade : Walter P. Moore

Hardware : Finish Hardware Technology

Facade : Knippers Helbig

Theater Consultant : Arup

Acoustics / Av : Jaffe Holden

Fire Safety : Exponent, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Building Envelope : Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Cost Consultant : AECOM, Stuart-Lynn Company

Restoration : John Fidler Preservation Technology

Building Maintenance : CS Caulkins

City : Los Angeles

Country : United States

In the heart of Los Angeles, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the world’s premier movie museum.

Situated on the famed “Miracle Mile,” the museum preserves and breathes new life into the former 1939 May Company department store, now renamed the Saban Building. Celebrating its history and imagining new possibilities, the additions to the building that dates from 1946 have been removed and replaced with a spherical building that features the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater and the Dolby Family Terrace with views toward Hollywood.

The revitalized campus features more than 50,000 square feet of gallery space, two theaters, cutting-edge project spaces, an outdoor piazza, a rooftop terrace, an active education studio, a restaurant, and a store.

Renzo Piano said, “The Academy Museum gives us the opportunity to honor the past while creating a building for the future—in fact, for the possibility of many futures. The historic Saban Building is a wonderful example of Streamline Moderne style, which preserves the way people envisioned the future in 1939.

The new structure, the Sphere Building, is a form that seems to lift off the ground into the perpetual, imaginary voyage through space and time that is moviegoing. By connecting these two experiences we create something that is itself like a movie. You go from sequence to sequence, from the exhibition galleries to the film theater and the terrace, with everything blending into one experience.”

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