Weiss Manfredi wins competition to redevelop La Brea Tar Pits
New York studio Weiss Manfredi has beaten competition from Dorte Mandrup and Diller Scofidio + Renfro to develop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits.
Weiss Manfredi's design will occupy the active paleontological research centre situated on the eastern portion of Hancock Park and add renovations to the George C Page Museum.
La Brea Tar Pits is a group of asphalt lakes, created from tar that seeped up from the ground over a period of thousands of years, trapping and preserving the animals that lived on site.
The competition to update the 13-acre (five-hectare) campus was organised by the National History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC). It marks the historical property's first update in over 40 years. In the winning proposal, titled Loops and Lenses, the focus is a one-kilometre long pathway that curves through the public park joining three distinct themes of the site identified by the architects.
"There is truly no place in the world as magical as La Brea Tar Pits," said Weiss Manfredi principals Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. "Our 'Loops and Lenses' concept creates new connections between the museum and the Park, between science and culture, and envisions the entire site as an unfolding place of discovery."
"The park areas connected by the loops capture three distinguishing themes: research and revelation, community and culture, and spectacle and urban fiction," they added.
The first theme, Res...
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