"New renderings released by WEISS/MANFREDI reveal updated plans for the ongoing transformation of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a comprehensive redesign that integrates the museum, landscape, and active excavation areas into a continuous public and research-oriented campus. Alongside the design update, the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHM) has announced the creation of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, a new initiative supported by the Samuel Oschin Family Foundation, which advances the site's long-term redevelopment."
"Selected through an international competition, WEISS/MANFREDI's proposal reimagines the Tar Pits and Hancock Park as a unified "inside-outside" museum environment that brings scientific research closer to public space. The design strategy, known as "Loops and Lenses," connects existing structures with new circulation routes and framed views, allowing visitors to move continuously between excavation sites, laboratories, exhibition spaces, and landscaped areas. At the center of the plan is a 1-kilometer accessible pedestrian loop that links the museum, active dig sites, and the park's central green."
La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park will be transformed into an integrated public and research campus that unites museum, landscape, and active excavation areas. WEISS/MANFREDI leads design for the museum and park, with Gruen Associates as executive architect and landscape architect and Kossmanndejong handling exhibition design. The Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research will support long-term redevelopment and research. The 'Loops and Lenses' strategy creates new circulation and framed views, anchored by a one-kilometer accessible pedestrian loop linking museum, dig sites, and the park's central green. Fundraising is ongoing with completion targeted before the 2028 Olympic Games.
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