“I was educated during Gropius’s tenure at Harvard—when Bauhaus Modernism reigned. We genuinely believed that function came first. And I believe, if the function changes, then the building has to change as well.” These were the words of Edward Larrabee Barnes to Michael Maltzan more than 20 years ago when Maltzan—whose firm was still quite young at the time—embarked on a decades-long makeover of Barnes’s design for the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. That project culminated with the March opening of a new entrance and new galleries.
While the changes at the Hammer Museum are subtle—it remains a museum, just adapted to the current times—other buildings in this issue have undergone complete transformations. Not far from the Hammer, in Orange, California, a former orange-packing facility has been reimagined by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects as a center for dance. The intervention in an historic warehouse, the last of its kind in what used to be a center of the citrus industry, lets users experience the 1918 structure in unexpected ways under its dramatic sawtooth roof.
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