LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne points out that ex-collaborator Zoltan Pali leaving Renzo Piano the sole architect on the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures project hasn't changed the fact that the design remains "gimmicky, alienated rather than emerging confidently from its site, as Piano's best museum projects do." But the greater part of the blame might belong to the academy, for "refusing to budge on its construction timeline" and "doubling down on the least-promising elements of the design." [LA Times; previously]
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