The first images revealed by the Renzo Piano studio, show us a renovation completed and new exterior look and futuristic interior of the moviemaking museum, adding a shocking new concrete and glass sphere a structure housing the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater, topped by viewpoint; the Dolby Family Terrace with views towards Hollywood, roofted under a curving glass structure.
The spherical dome is composed of 1,500 overlapping low-iron glass shingles, which were cut into 146 different shapes and sizes, produced in Austria.
A more intimate 288-seat theater will be the museum’s "cinematheque," offering screenings ranging from Saturday morning matinees for children of all ages to global cinema series, as The Academy Museum explained.
The spherical dome is composed of 1,500 overlapping low-iron glass shingles, which were cut into 146 different shapes and sizes, produced in Austria.
A more intimate 288-seat theater will be the museum’s "cinematheque," offering screenings ranging from Saturday morning matinees for children of all ages to global cinema series, as The Academy Museum explained.
"Both theaters will be home to an array of live performances, lectures, panels, and other events that will bring the most notable film artists of today to Los Angeles," added Piano.
The 1,000-seat David Geffen Theatre is the larger of the museum’s two theaters. Photograph by Josh White/Courtesy JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation.
After the frustrated last year announcement by Tom Hanks, announcing that the nearly $500-million museum would welcome the public come that December, now, the Academy Museum announces its inaugural programming and the official public opening, which will occur on September 30, 2021. To kick start its public debut, the Museum kicks off with a special programs in spring:
"Leading up to the opening, the Academy Museum has planned a series of virtual programs kicking off in April 2021 around the Oscars®," shares the Museum.
Four years later, after showing the first steps works in October 2017, the project is finally complete. In addition to its spherical addition, the museum campus is connected to a restored Saban Building (formerly known as the May Company Building).
The set museum-campus, of 27,870-square-metre (300,000 square-foot), to be "the largest institution in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking."
Four years later, after showing the first steps works in October 2017, the project is finally complete. In addition to its spherical addition, the museum campus is connected to a restored Saban Building (formerly known as the May Company Building).
The set museum-campus, of 27,870-square-metre (300,000 square-foot), to be "the largest institution in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking."
The revitalized campus will now present more than 50,000 square feet (4,645 square metre) of gallery space, with two theaters, cutting-edge project spaces, an outdoor piazza, the rooftop terrace, an active education studio, a restaurant, and store.
An exciting lineup of exhibitions and collections is to be housed within the Museum. LA-based interdisciplinary firm wHY Architecture has spearheaded the Museum's gallery design will cover three floors of the newly renovated Saban Building.
"The Academy Museum gives us the opportunity to honor the past while creating a building for the future—in fact, for the possibility of many futures.
The historic Saban Building is a wonderful example of Streamline Moderne style, which preserves the way people envisioned the future in 1939.
The new structure, the Sphere Building, is a form that seems to lift off the ground into the perpetual, imaginary voyage through space and time that is moviegoing.
By connecting these two experiences we create something that is itself like a movie. You go from sequence to sequence, from the exhibition galleries to the film theater and the terrace, with everything blending into one experience," Piano said.
The historic Saban Building is a wonderful example of Streamline Moderne style, which preserves the way people envisioned the future in 1939.
The new structure, the Sphere Building, is a form that seems to lift off the ground into the perpetual, imaginary voyage through space and time that is moviegoing.
By connecting these two experiences we create something that is itself like a movie. You go from sequence to sequence, from the exhibition galleries to the film theater and the terrace, with everything blending into one experience," Piano said.
