The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art broke ground yesterday in South Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. Designed by MAD Architects’ founder Ma Yansong, the $1-billion, 300,000-square-foot museum will house George Lucas’s extensive collection of art and transform existing parking lots on the site into 11 acres of new green space designed by LA-based landscape architecture firm Studio-MLA.
Ma’s design calls for undulating metal panels to cover the spaceship-like building, which will contain exhibition space, classrooms, two theaters, and a library beneath an expansive roof terrace. “The focus of the museum is to open up people’s imaginations and inspire them to dream beyond what is considered possible,” said Lucas, in a statement.
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