Renzo Piano

LACMA executives moving to Variety building

2013-05-09 10:40:00

The Times' Money & Co. blog has reported that top executives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be moving offices to the Variety building, which is across the street from the museum campus at 5900 Wilshire Blvd. Museum officials will move into...

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look

2013-05-01 05:00:00

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...

Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum

2013-04-12 05:00:00

Will the Academy's big bubble pop before it has a chance to be built? Italian architect Renzo Piano, Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali and officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled preliminary designs Thursday for a $300-...

Motion Picture Academy unveils new drawings for film museum

2013-04-11 15:24:00

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has unveiled new concept drawings for its film museum — including a giant, domed theater structure — to open in 2017 at the historic May Co. building on the LACMA campus at Fairfax Avenue and...

David Geffen donates $25 million to academy film museum at LACMA

2013-04-08 11:22:00

David Geffen has donated $25 million to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' new museum dedicated to the history of film. In recognition of the gift — the museum's largest commitment received to date — the academy will name a...

Academy chooses architects for its movie museum project at LACMA

2012-05-30 16:38:45

New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris

2011-07-17 00:00:00

In a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in...

The Review: Ray's and Stark Bar at LACMA

2011-06-09 00:00:00

Restaurants with a view usually come in two varieties: landscape or cityscape. The new Ray's and Stark Bar at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have a view. But it's not the ocean or the city lights spread on a starry carpet below. Instead, the new...

New York City's spots for book lovers

2011-09-04 00:00:00

On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists. "On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...

Critic's Notebook: Metro douses expectations on Union Station project

2012-04-27 05:30:00

Talk about raining on your own parade. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority coaxed Renzo Piano from Paris, Ban van Berkel from Amsterdam and a bunch of talented local architects from the far Westside and brought them together Wednesday afternoon...

Critic's Notebook: Shifting horizons in Santa Monica parks design

2011-07-30 19:28:00

Standing atop a patch of churned-up dirt on a recent morning, James Corner was surrounded by mismatched palm trees, chipped sidewalks and sagging chain link: a typical slice of Southern California landscape caught unawares, hardly ready for its close-up....

L.A.'s new restaurants serve up a great year

2011-11-10 00:00:00

Each year I keep a running log to track restaurants slated to open each month. When this January rolled around and I started my new list, I fully expected the pace of openings to slow to a trickle. That hasn't happened. Instead, despite the curdled...

The Shard is seen lit up during a laser light show from Tower Millennium Pier in London, England.

2012-07-05 00:00:00

Renzo Piano s Resnick Pavilion is the most recent addition to LACMA s architectural mix.

2011-10-11 19:18:27

While many praise this building's simplicity, others much prefer the aesthetics on the inside.

2011-07-15 07:50:25