The newly opened Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery, the latest addition to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District commercial boom, is a behemoth, occupying all 116,000 square feet of a former Pillsbury flour mill complex.
The gallery’s arrival prompts obvious comparisons to Manhattan’s Chelsea arts district, where such powerhouse galleries also occupy the disused spaces of a once-overlooked neighborhood. There, Hauser & Wirth inhabits a former disco roller rink that architect Annabelle Selldorf converted into a gallery in 2013, with another Selldorf-designed, ground-up space on the way.
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