3900 S. Vermont Ave. / One Lucas Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90037 | map |
Opening: 2026. It's in Exposition Park just south of Exposition Blvd. Vermont Ave. is on the west side of the museum, Bill Robertson Lane is on the east. This view north on Vermont is a rendering appearing on the museum's website.
Website: https://lucasmuseum.org | on Facebook | on Instagram |
The Museum's theatres: There are two, each seating 299. They're on the ground floor on the north side of the building's center plaza. Bernardo Rondeau is the museum's film programmer and curator. See "Academy Museum’s Director of Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau Exits for Lucas Museum Job," Pat Saperstein's March 2023 article for Variety.
Architect: Ma Yansong of MAD Architects. Michael Siegel of the local firm Stantec is the architect-of-record. Mia Lehrer of Studio MLA designed the green spaces including the roof garden. LERA was the structural engineer. Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction is the general contractor. Construction began in 2018.
It's a five-story building that reaches 115' in height with about 300,000 s.f. of space. The main floor has a 10,000 s.f. archive, 82,000 s.f. of gallery space is on the 4th floor and nearly 8,000 s.f. of gallery area is on the 5th floor.
In addition to the galleries and theatres, there are various learning spaces, a large library with windows overlooking a garden south of the building, a main floor cafe, a larger restaurant on the fifth floor, various event spaces and a rooftop terrace. There are two levels of parking below the museum and a separate three-story underground parking structure south of the museum. Sandra Jackson-Dumont is the museum's director.
A rendering of the north lobby from MAD Architects. The three glass elevators seen here take visitors to the fourth floor galleries. The rendering appeared with a 2018 story about the groundbreaking on the site designboom.
A site plan submitted to the LA Planning commission in 2017. This drawing as well as the floorplans below appeared on "New images unveiled for MAD’s $1-Billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA," a post on the site World Architecture. Also see the 2017 Urbanize article "New design..." as well as a Skyscraper City thread about the project.
The 1st floor plan. North is at the right on these plans. Click on any of them for somewhat larger views. The two theatres are on the north side of the central plaza. The big space with all the columns on the left in the south half of this floor is the museum's archive.
A closer look at the north lobby and the theatres. On the left it's the oculus in the building's central plaza. The three glass elevators are in that pod in the middle of the north lobby. The cafe is in the lower center, alongside theatre #2. There's a larger restaurant up on 5.
The 2nd floor plan.
The 3rd floor. Note the library over on the far left. Its windows look out over the south garden.
The 4th floor plan. 82,000 s.f. of gallery space on this level.
The 5th floor. There's an exhibition space on the left on the building's south end. The restaurant and an event are over on the north side.
A longitudinal section. North is over on the right. Click on it for a larger view
A cross section of the south half of the building.
Interior construction views:
2022 - Construction in one of the two lobbies. It's a photo by Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media taken for the Lucas Museum. It's one of nineteen images appearing with Paul Cano's September article "MAD Architects' Lucas Museum Reveals Latest Construction Details" on the site Arch Daily. It also appears with a story on the site Metalocus that has a gallery of fourteen images plus a video.
2022 - A construction view of the library that's on the third floor. Photo: Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media for the Lucas Museum
2022 - Up near the oculus that's above the center plaza. Photo: Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media for the Lucas Museum
2023 - Some of the lobby framing. It's a January 31 photo by Adam Amengual taken for the New York Times that appears in a gallery of seven photos with "Futuristic home of the $1 billion Lucas Museum rises in LA," Adam Nagourney's NYT story that appeared in the Marin Independent Journal. Museum director Sandra Jackson-Dumont says "There isn’t a straight line in the whole place."
2023 - The library in June. It's a photo by Roberto Gomez for the USC School of Cinematic Arts that appears with "Step inside MAD architects' Lucas Museum as it takes shape in Los Angeles," a March 2024 article by Kat Barandy on the site designboom. Also see the site's coverage from March 2018 and February 2020.
2023 - In the north lobby in December. Head through the arches on either side of that elevator pod to get to the theatres. Photo: Roberto Gomez/USC School of Cinematic Arts -designboom
Exterior views:
2018 - The site cleared and ready to go. That bottom segment of the construction crane in the middle of the lot is positioned where the oculus above the center plaza would later be. The site had been city-owned surface parking lots. We're looking north with Vermont Ave. on the left. There's a bit of downtown over on the right edge. Thanks to Sterling Davis Photo for the image. It appears on Flickr.
2020 - The north end of the building starting to rise. This Vermont Ave. view is from "Construction Update: The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art," a March gallery of nine photos appearing on the site Field Condition.
2020 - The south end of the building. Thanks to Field Condition for the March photo.
2022 - Looking west. Note the crane sticking up through the center plaza's oculus. It's a photo by Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media for the Lucas Museum appearing with Paul Cano's September article "MAD Architects' Lucas Museum Reveals Latest Construction Details" on the site Arch Daily.
2022 - A view north on Bill Robertson Lane. Photo: Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media for the Lucas Museum
2022 - On the roof. Photo: Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media for the Lucas Museum
2022 - The center plaza and its oculus. The arch spans 185'. It's a photo by Eric Furie/Sand Hill Media taken for the Lucas Museum.
2023 - A view north by Allen J. Schaben, part of a gallery of his still and video images with "In a galaxy not so far away, Lucas Museum is taking off," his January photo essay for the L.A. Times.
2023 - Ready for its closeup in January. Photo: Allen J. Schaben for the L.A. Times
2023 - A side view in January. Photo: Allen J. Schaben for the L.A. Times
2023 - Fiberglass panels going up in the central plaza in
December. It's a photo by Roberto Gomez for the USC School of Cinematic
Arts that appears with "Step inside MAD architects' Lucas Museum as it takes shape in Los Angeles," a March 2024 article by Kat Barandy on the site designboom. Also see the site's coverage from March 2018 and February 2020.
2023 - Looking toward the north lobby in December. Photo: Roberto Gomez/USC School of Cinematic Arts - designboom
2024 - A Hunter Kerhart photo. It's one of 14 appearing with "Here's the latest progress on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art," an August story by Steven Sharp for Urbanize. That's Vermont Ave. in the lower right. The Natural History Museum and California Science Center are over to the left.
2024 - Looking south in August with Bill Robertson on the left, Vermont on the right. Photo: Hunter Kerhart for Urbanize
2024 - The view toward downtown in August. Photo: Hunter Kerhart for Urbanize
2024 - A December view north on Bill Robertson Lane. Thanks to Tony L. Delicia for sharing this shot in a post for the DTLA Photo Group on Facebook. It was one of three in his post.
2024 - One of the construction entrances. Photo: Tony L. Delecia
2024 - The landscaping continuing to develop. It's a Hunter Kerhart photo, one of four included in a December 24 Urbanize Facebook post.
2024 - The grounds on the south end of the museum. Photo: Hunter Kerhart for Urbanize. Also see the December story on their website: "The Lucas Museum's green roof and gardens start to fill in."
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