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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles will celebrate visual storytelling and house the works of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Designed by MAD Architects, the 115-foot tall, spaceship-inspired building covers three lenses of art and features curving wings that unite under a rooftop with exhibition spaces, a restaurant, and public plaza. Nearly a third of the building will showcase over 10,000 pieces of comics, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other art forms linked to movies across its galleries, theater, library, and classrooms once completed in 2021.

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FA000 Lucas-Museum-of-Narrative-Art COMPLETE AIR v001

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles will celebrate visual storytelling and house the works of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Designed by MAD Architects, the 115-foot tall, spaceship-inspired building covers three lenses of art and features curving wings that unite under a rooftop with exhibition spaces, a restaurant, and public plaza. Nearly a third of the building will showcase over 10,000 pieces of comics, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other art forms linked to movies across its galleries, theater, library, and classrooms once completed in 2021.

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LA’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art brings science fiction to life

Project Name: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Country: Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California

Designer: MAD Architects

URL: http://www.i-mad.com/work/lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-los-angeles/?cid=4

A spaceship-inspired museum floating over the bustling terrain of Exposition Park is set to celebrate the
power of visual storytelling and how it rose world-renowned filmmaker George Lucas to fame.

Resting above two state-owned parking lots on Vermont Avenue south of Exposition Boulevard, the
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a five-storey, 115-foot tall building that covers three lenses of art –
digital art, narrative art, and the art of cinema. Set to be completed in 2021, the museum will house
artworks by George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson.

A prominent, sinuous form welcomes visitors en-route to the museum. Inspired by an intergalactic
spaceship, its lower floors are divided into two curvilinear wings, spanning a pedestrianized walkway
and congregation space beneath the otherworldly wonder above. These wings are eventually unified
through a curvy rooftop housing additional exhibition spaces, a restaurant, and a public plaza generously
adorned by vast foliage.

Going further its futuristic façade unfolds spacious interiors engulfed with natural lighting piercing
through the skylights above it. An array of tube-like elevator shafts smoothly ascends through the
building’s upper floors.

Nearly one-third of the building’s total floor area will showcase over 10,000 pieces of comics, paintings,
photographs, sculptures, motion pictures, and other forms of art linked to movies. Apart from a
dedicated gallery space, other spatial features will include a lecture hall, library, movie theater,
restaurant, and digital classrooms. Beneath it is an extensive parking complex with a capacity of 2,425
vehicles.

Eventually unifying the parabolic frame of the museum is a publicly accessible green roof terrace
breathing life to its white-laden exteriors. Upon completion, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will
serve as a barrier-free museum where the absence of artificial divisions between “high” and “popular”
art will allow its visitors to explore a wide array of persuasive visual storytelling.

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