Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s controversial design for LACMA has turned into Los Angeles’ most serious cultural issue in the last decade, writes commentator Joseph Giovannini.

The new $650 million scheme reveals a strikingly muscular form of sand-colored concrete.

The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor may have just spilled the beans about a radical overhaul of his scheme for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Architecture buffs will likely know the Sheats-Goldstein Residence as John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece. Others may recognize it as pornographer Jackie Treehorn’s pad in the 1998 Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski. Beginning today, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will consider it an impending part of its collection.