The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected the French architect Atelier Christian de Portzamparc to design a new complex for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. It will be located next to the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, California. As of yet there are no formal design plans for the site, which will span eight acres and preserve existing 1940s-era structures, but the idea is to create a campus of 165,000 square feet of new construction and open spaces that engage their surroundings.

“It is important that this building conforms to the Hollywood location and serves as a new contribution,” de Portzamparc says. “It should be open, where people walking around the neighborhood can discover and experience the museum. Visitors should have an encounter even if they were coming to the area with another purpose.” He adds that motion, both of people in the area and that of motion pictures, will inspire the building’s design elements. The museum will include exhibits about the history of Hollywood and the actors, directors, and producers that have made Tinsel Town what it is.