The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released images of its MAD-designed home under construction in Los Angeles and announced an opening date of 2025.
Under construction alongside the LA Memorial Coliseum stadium in Exposition Park, the five-story building will be home to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art when it completes.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is under construction in Los Angeles. Photo by Hunter Kerhart
Designed by Chinese studio MAD with international studio Stantec acting as executive architect, the building's elongated, organic form can be seen taking shape in the photos released by the institution.
According to the studio, the building's form was informed by the trees in the surrounding park, with its edges raised above the ground to create shaded areas. It is being built in Exposition Park. Photo by Hunter Kerhart
To give the building its sinuous finish, the steel frame will be clad in 1,500 curved fibreglass-reinforced polymer (FRP) panels that will all have a unique shape.
Installation of the panels has begun on the lower levels of the building's south facade.

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The 300,000-square-foot (28,000 square metre) building is being built to host a museum dedicated to narrative art.
It will contain spaces dedicated to the work of filmmaker and Star Wars creator George Lucas and artwork and memorabilia owned by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson.
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