![]() ![]() ![]() The complex now encompasses 4,700 sqm of exhibition space, two theatres, an open air plaza, a roof terrace, an education studio, a restaurant and retail areas. To conserve the historic value of the former May Company Building and with new functions and possibilities in mind, Renzo Piano chose to remove the 1946 additions to the building and replace them with a spherical structure that houses the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theatre and the Dolby Family Terrace with its spectacular Hollywood views. This sense of the past is then joined to the startlingly contemporary forms of the Sphere Building that evoke the shapes of the airships that landed here back in the early 1900s when the area was an airfield. This is also why the museum felt it was important to keep the Saban Building as it represents an idea of the future that people may have had, back in 1929. The architect Renzo Piano has designed this entire area as a place that transmits a sensation of travelling in time and space, as this is what people go to the cinema for. Situated on the famous "Miracle Mile" In Los Angeles, the museum has restored and revitalised the former May Company warehouse (built in 1939) and renamed it the Saban Building. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opened in 2021, is the most important cinema museum in the world. Kerry Brougher, Academy Museum Director Like watching a movie, visitors will enter a waking dream-one in which they go inside the movies to experience their magic, as well as the art and science that makes that magic possible.” We hope to transport visitors to a cinematic environment, somewhere between reality and illusion. We want to give visitors a place to explore and discuss the impact of film. For more than 120 years, cinema has been central to global culture and the way we perceive, question, and, at times, escape the world around us. “The Academy Museum will be a hub for film lovers where people from across the city and around the world can enjoy, learn, and engage with movies and moviemakers. You go from sequence to sequence, from the exhibition galleries to the film theater and the terrace, with everything blending into one experience.” By connecting these two experiences we create something that is itself like a movie. 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. The historic Saban Building is a wonderful example of Streamline Moderne style, which preserves the way people envisioned the future in 1939. “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 revitalized campus will feature more than 50,000 square feet of gallery space, two theaters, cutting-edge project spaces, an outdoor piazza, the rooftop terrace, an active education studio, a restaurant, and store. Celebrating its history and imagining new possibilities, the additions to the building that date from 1946 have been removed and replaced with a spherical building that features the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater and the Dolby Family Terrace with views towards Hollywood. ![]() Situated on the famed “Miracle Mile,” the museum will preserve and breathe new life into the former 1939 May Company department store, now re-named the Saban Building. When it opens in the heart of Los Angeles, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be the world’s premier movie museum. ![]()
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