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Old Posted Nov 4, 2014, 4:12 AM
LouisVanDerWright LouisVanDerWright is offline
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Some more quotes from the Gizmodo article:

This one in particular sounds exciting:

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art looks less like an art museum and more like a college campus from some imagined future: A long, stately procession of small parklets and public spaces kept in order by an organic knot of sidewalks paved in light grey stone, which rises up to become the facade of the building itself, a sinuous white mass of conical forms that house the museum, along with four theaters, an education center, archival space, and more, totaling about 400,000 square feet.

It's less of a building than a sponge, a sticky substance that curves through the lakefront and carves out buildings, parks, and sidewalks where it wants them. The idea, Ma told me today, was to turn an area that feels like a warren of parking and backstreets into useable public space. "This should be a successful public park," he said. "Right now, it's parking." It rises up to cover a parking lot and through-street, then dips down to create an outdoor amphitheater for screenings.
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Visitors will enter the museum and see a huge, naturally-lit white cone, the walk upwards through gallery spaces until they arrive at a metallic 360-degree observation deck and restaurant, which will be free to the public to visit—a "new way to view the city," says the architect.
Still very preliminary, they will now have a webcam at their desk that will provide constant updates to their latest tweeks to the project. Should be interesting:

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Ma and his collaborators— still have a long ways to go before these early ideas are made real. Now the team will go into schematic design and, next spring, present a final proposal to the city.