Details
- Size: 75,000 square feet
- Completion Date: 2024
Team
- Architect: Frederick Fisher and Partners
- Contractor: MATT Construction
Awards
- Best Cultural/Worship Project, 2025 ENR Best Projects
The Commons, located at the Museum’s southern edge, is a new transparent “front porch” for visitors and a connection to the adjacent Memorial Coliseum. The overall project includes nearly 50,000 square feet of renovated space in an existing gallery structure and approximately 30,000 square feet of new construction in a 2-story Commons Building, much of which is glass. To accommodate exhibition spaces, a large open lobby, café, and a 400-seat theater, the structural design focused on column-free floor areas and 23-ft floor-to-floor heights that utilize 40-inch deep structural steel beams spanning 70 ft and steel moment frames with viscous dampers.
Photography: By Benny Chan and Courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County
