Resnick Pavilion in LACMA, Los Angeles, United State

October 31, 2010 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

Resnick Pavilion, was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop that located in LACMA, Los Angeles, United State, The design of the Resnick Pavilion is informed by an amalgamation of ideas drawn from a multitude of sources, including the architect’s memory. Like the Broad Contemporary Museum of Art, which Piano completed in 2008, the Resnick Pavilion is built of travertine glass and steel and has a saw-tooth roof that is designed to modulate the California sun – but here they are expressed as a one storey building as opposed to the multi-storied BCMA.

The horizontality of the building makes for an interesting counterbalance to the BCMA’s vertical massing and it creates an extremely flexible space that can be configured in a variety of ways to accommodate different sized and scaled art works. The decision to make the pavilion a single storey structure was motivated in part by Govan’s love of the Dia Beacon in New York, a former factory building re-purposed as an art museum in 2003 which Govan had a hand in designing when he was the Dia’s director.

Resnick Pavilion Design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop