An Experiment in Urban Glue
David Dillon’s a busy man these days, penning this brief for Architectural Record on the Morphosis design for the new Perot Science Museum. He describes the Los Angeles-based architectural firm’s challenge: “The 180,000-square-foot museum will front the intersection of a tollway and an elevated freeway, surrounded by parking lots, gas stations, strip malls, and apartments—a vintage L.A. site, in other words, in which predictably Mayne finds as many opportunities as challenges. ‘It’s not a contextual site,’ he understates, ‘so the building will have to develop its own character. But it is also an opportunity to pull things together, to act as a kind of urban glue.’”
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