The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is planning to build a new home for itself on Wilshire Boulevard designed by the Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
This project, which is estimated to cost $650 million, will mean the original 1965 building as well as an addition that was constructed in 1986 will both be razed. The museum’s board had approved the construction of a new building by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas in 2001, but that plan was ultimately abandoned after the museum was unable to raise the money.
The current director Michael Govan has been laying the groundwork for a $650 million capital campaign, the L.A. Times reports. The museum would keep two other additions on the western side of the museum’s campus open during the construction. Design drawings for the new museum are to be unveiled next month, the paper said.
