Yours Truly had a very restful Memorial Day Weekend, topped off by a visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The point of the visit was to document the museum's original buildings--the Ahmanson Gallery and the Bing Building--before they fall victim to the wrecking ball. As luck would have it, there was a very informative exhibit, Building the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibit traced the history of how the museum, located in Los Angeles' Miracle Mile area, came into being and the various schemes other architects have proposed before the Peter Zumthor scheme was approved. Ever the opportunistic Blogger, Yours Truly took out the trusty phone to take pictures of the exhibit. Below are the photographs that Blogger took yesterday. Enjoy.
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| The Ahmanson Building William Pereira Los Angeles, California |
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| The Leo S. Bing Center William Pereira |
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| Smoke by Tony Smith, 1967 Atrium of the Ahmanson Building |
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| Packed up for the big move |
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| Miracle model Peter Zumthor |
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| Aerial view of proposed LACMA redesign |
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| The Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art, 1913 |
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| Trustee Howard Ahmanson (L), board chair Edward W. Carter (C), and architect William L. Pereira (R) Below: Trustee Anna Bing Arnold 1965 |
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| The William Pereira Building, 1965 The Ahmanson Gallery The Lytton (now Hammer) Gallery The Leo S. Bing Center |
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| (L) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer (Robert O. Anderson Building) 1988 (R) Bruce Goff (Pavilion for Japanese Art) 1988 (C) Aerial view of LACMA, c. 1986 |
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| (L) Rem Koolhaus' proposal, 2001 (R) Renzo Piano's proposal, 2006 |
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| (L) Renzo Piano plan, 2006 (R) Peter Zumthor scheme, 2019 |
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| Urban Lights, 2008 Chris Burden |
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