Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Expansion Is A $750M Traffic Jam

LACMA is finally opening Peter Zumthor’s massive horizontal gallery that literally straddles Wilshire Boulevard like a concrete titan. I’ve spent my life looking for aesthetic purity, but this is architecture playing God with the commute. It’s a 274-meter-long flex that says, 'Your time is less valuable than this minimalist slab.' We’re building a museum over a road so people can feel cultured for three seconds while idling at a red light. It’s less of a gallery and more of a very expensive lid for the city’s exhaust. If the permanent collection isn't visible from the asphalt, we’ve missed the only cinematic angle that matters.

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