French firm is chosen to design Museum of Motion Pictures
From the L.A. Times-
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition...m8nov08,0,3420883.story?coll=cl-calendar
Academy tabs Pritzker-winning Atelier Christian de Portzamparc. Groundbreaking on Hollywood site is scheduled for 2009.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Museum of Motion Pictures moved one step closer to reality with the announcement today that French architecture firm Atelier Christian de Portzamparc will design the project.
The academy's board of governors approved the selection based on the recommendations of an architecture subcommittee whose members include Steven Spielberg, Curtis Hanson, producer Kathleen Kennedy and production designer Jeannine Oppewall.
De Portzamparc, a film aficionado, was the "happy and unanimous" choice. As for now, there are no formal plans designed for the museum campus, which will span eight acres, several buildings and open space areas and will be located next to the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, between Vine Street and Cahuenga Boulevard, and De Longpre and Fountain avenues.
Fundraising for the project begins next year. "It's a big chunk of dough," said Ganis, who declined to reveal actually how big a chunk. "It's an extremely ambitious undertaking."
Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2009; Ganis hopes the ribbon will be cut in 2012. "It's what the academy should be doing -- show the world what the art of film has been, what film is about, what the academy is about and how film has influenced us culturally."
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