Renzo Piano says his Academy Museum is no ‘Death Star’ – Los Angeles Times

He prefers the expression “flying vessel,” though he’s also partial to “magic lantern,” which has been used by actor Tom Hanks (a museum trustee) to describe the building, which opens to the public on Thursday. Piano pulls out his cell phone and shows me an aerial view of the Geffen taken by noted architectural photographer Iwan Baan. It shows the museum in the moody light of dusk, the theater’s globular form glowing warmly from within.“Look at that,” he says, with a bit of wonder. “It’s a soap bubble in the middle of a concrete city.”

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