Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Design tweaks can't overcome Academy Museum's dramatic flaws

Academy museum

For Kerry Brougher, newly named director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' planned film museum, the bubble may be nothing compared with the spaceship.
Brougher comes to the academy from the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., where one of his first tests as interim director was dealing with fallout from a failed proposal to install a $15-million inflatable bubble in the museum's circular courtyard.
In Los Angeles, Brougher will inherit a new architectural challenge ...reed more