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peter zumthor’s david geffen galleries open at LACMA as a sweeping glass-and-concrete arc

designboom | architecture & design magazine·thomai tsimpou I designboom·about 2 months ago
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LACMA opens long-awaited building, designed by Peter Zumthor   Peter Zumthor’s David Geffen Galleries at LACMA open to the public on April 19th, 2026, completing a two-decade transformation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art into its most expansive institutional form yet. The new building, a 275-meter-long, curved glass-and- concrete structure that stretches along Hancock Park and crosses Wilshire Boulevard, houses the permanent collection of the museum across 10,220 square meters of gallery space elevated nearly 9 meters above street level.   The raised exhibition floor rests on seven ground-level pavilions accommodating education, retail, dining, and a theater, while the spaces between them open into publicly accessible plazas, including the East West Bank Commons and the W.M. Keck Plaza.…

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