Lucas Museum - Chicago Tonight Roundtable
Last night, one day after MAD Architects' Ma Yansong unveiled his conceptual design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Chicago Tonight hosted a panel with Lynn Becker, Peter Exley and Edward Keegan to get some feedback on the design and its next steps. Below is an embed of the 12-minute video, but it can also be watched on WTTW11's website.
With only three renderings made public, and as many reservations as the above trio, I am excited about the design. For one, I like the way it departs from Chicago's two primary conditions – the vertical (skyscraper) and the horizontal (the landscape, the low-rise city around the Loop) – to propose something in-between, something that rises like a mountain and appears to be more landform than building. The coming weeks will certainly be host to more debate on the design, which still needs city approval to move forward.
With only three renderings made public, and as many reservations as the above trio, I am excited about the design. For one, I like the way it departs from Chicago's two primary conditions – the vertical (skyscraper) and the horizontal (the landscape, the low-rise city around the Loop) – to propose something in-between, something that rises like a mountain and appears to be more landform than building. The coming weeks will certainly be host to more debate on the design, which still needs city approval to move forward.
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