The home of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is an 11-acre campus with a landscape consisting of trees, gardens, walkways, and architectural features that embrace a nearly 300,000-square-foot building, all currently under construction on a site that was formerly an asphalt parking lot in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park.
The five-story museum building includes approximately 100,000 square feet of dedicated gallery space, two state-of-the-art cinematic theaters, numerous spaces for learning and engagement, a café and a restaurant, and retail and special events spaces.
The rolling landscape of the new park creates much needed green space for South Los Angeles while providing the Lucas Museum with a variety of outdoor areas for exploration and incorporates beautiful architectural features throughout, including a hanging garden, an amphitheater, a pedestrian bridge, and a waterfall-like fountain.,
With a stunning architectural vision for the building created by Ma Yansong/MAD Architects, a dynamic design for the park and gardens created by Mia Lehrer of Los Angeles’s Studio-MLA, and Michael Siegel of Stantec as executive architect leading a talented team through the process of realizing the vision and construction, the Lucas Museum’s campus will be an innovative new cultural landmark for Los Angeles.
A long-awaited museum dedicated to ‘narrative art
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art broke ground in March 2018 and is deeply committed to partnering with diverse enterprises, including small businesses, as well as women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses.
The project is labor-friendly and provides jobs to workers who are members of local unions. It also promotes construction employment and training opportunities for local and disadvantaged residents in Los Angeles. Around 60% of the museum’s construction workforce resides in LA County.
Project Details:
Project Name: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Architecture: Ma Yansong/MAD Architects
Location: Exposition Park, Los Angeles, USA
Building Area: 265,000–275,000 Net Sq Ft
The project description is provided by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
