Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, adding a concrete and glass sphere to a 1930s building.
Images revealed by the studio show the exterior and interior of the moviemaking museum, which will open 30 September 2021.
A spherical extension abuts the art deco building
The Academy Museum occupies the Saban Building, formerly the May Company Building, which was built on the intersection of Wilshire and Fairfax in 1939.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Piano's studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop renovated the building and added the Sphere ? a domed structure housing screening theatres topped by a terrace sheltered under a curving glass roof.
A glass dome tops the terrace of the Sphere The museum will be dedicated to the art and science of filmmaking. It is owned and operated by the Motion Picture Academy, the organisation behind the annual Oscars awards ceremony.
The renovated Saban Building and the Sphere will encompass 50,000-square-feet (4,600 square metres) of exhibition space, two theatres, a shop, a restaurant and an education studio named after Shirley Temple.
The base of the Sphere is made of steel and concrete
Piano created the spherical extension out of steel and concrete, overlaid with 1,500 glass shingles cut into 146 different shapes and sizes by fabricators in Austria.
The glazed pieces form a transparent dome over the terrace, which has views out over the Hollywood Hills.
The facade of the Saban Buildin...