Like shooting stars against a night sky—or a glowing game of pick-up sticks—thin rods of white light dynamically charge the black-box auditorium of the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA. These LED rods, hovering beneath the ceiling with barely visible means of support, don’t literally move, yet they generate an immediate sense of velocity, as if streaking by. “The idea,” says the architect, Michael Maltzan, FAIA, “was to transport you experientially from the world outside, much as the old movie palaces did—but in a more contemporary way—before you’re spirited away by the film itself.”
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