When I first saw Renzo Piano‘s renderings for the new Academy Museum, I wasn’t convinced. The spherical David Geffen Theater — the one that, to Piano’s dismay, has come to be known as the “Death Star” — looked parasitical as it hooked into the graceful streamline moderne building that once housed the May Co.’s first branch store. My first thought was “Aliens.”
Source: One thing the Academy Museum is missing: Los Angeles – Los Angeles Times