The L.A. County Museum of Art announced its opening date for the Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries as the new structure comes into view.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries will open to the public in April 2026, the museum announced Friday as scaffolding is coming down around the Peter Zumthor-designed building, revealing the most expansive view yet of the 900-foot-long, poured concrete structure spanning Wilshire Boulevard. During The Times' tour of the site this week,
campus at a slight downhill grade. The portion of the building that perches on the south side of Wilshire, where a surface parking lot once stood, will include a cafe that will look out on the street, as well as a 300-seat theater housed in one of seven, 30-foot-tall ground-level pavilions holding the museum's exhibition floor aloft. Other pavilion bases will hold a restaurant, the
campus. Passersby can get a better sense of the new building's 243 floor-to-ceiling windows, which the museum touts as providing 360-degree views of the city but which have been the source of angst among architecture enthusiasts, as the curved glass in earlier plans has been replaced with linear glass at odds with the arcs of the concrete.
has likened Zumthor's design to a kind of living organism. Indeed, the raw concrete is already showing signs of weathering, with water stains and other irregularities. The exterior walls are punctured at various points with circular holes that allow the air to come in and out of the building. The outline of the triangular ribs of the building's core can be seen from the ground looking up.
contends that with the 2008 addition of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum building and the 2010 addition of Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, the new
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