In the latest episode of what has become a dramatic narrative worthy of its own space opera, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has revealed plans for their two newest hopes: prospective museum designs, one in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, that could serve as the new home of filmmaker George Lucas? eclectic personal collection of artworks, costumes and artifacts.

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In the latest episode of what has become a dramatic narrative worthy of its own space opera, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has revealed plans for their two newest hopes: prospective museum designs, one in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, that could serve as the new home of filmmaker George Lucas? eclectic personal collection of artworks, costumes and artifacts.After their failed proposal for a mountain-shaped museum along the Chicago Waterfront, the museum has again tapped architect Ma Yansong and his firm, MAD Architects, to design both proposals for the California sites, the first along the water on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, and the second for a site in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, adjacent to the city?s Natural History Museum and the Coliseum.
San Francisco Proposal. Image Courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

The two proposals feature similar specs (between 265,000 and 275,000 net square feet and 90,000 - 100,000 square feet of gallery space), and a similar fluid architectural language. As opposed to the ...