The Academy Museum, LACMA, a revamped tar pits and the Purple Line — Miracle Mile is facing major changes. But for pedestrians life will be much the same.
An aerial rendering of Peter Zumthor's planned LACMA building, center, with Renzo Piano's Academy Museum theater .
The Purple Line station at Wilshire and Fairfax will be created from a kit designed by Johnson Fain — as shown in this rendering. Doug Suisman, architect and authorAn aerial shot taken in the 1960s shows LACMA as it was designed by William L. Pereira and Associates. The pools evoke the tar pits nearby. The redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in 2015.
"It's making the Miracle Mile a miracle again," says Terry Karges, executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum, which has inhabited the refurbished Ohrbach's department store building on the southeast corner of Wilshire and Fairfax since the 1990s. Moreover, within Hancock Park , where the Academy Museum, LACMA and the La Brea tar pits reside, the navigational experience is often circuitous. Even though they sit next to each other, LACMA offers few pathways to the tar pits, often requiring an awkward path that loops around to the north or a nearly two-block-long trudge along an uninspired stretch of Wilshire to the main gate at Curson. A gate just east of the museum, which could provide easier access, is frequently kept locked.
DOT will be implementing new safety features in anticipation of Metro's arrival, such as a zebra crosswalk over Orange Grove Avenue, on the south side of Wilshire, and wheelchair-accessible ramps on the current crossings at Wilshire and Ogden. But these improvements are only for existing crossings in the immediate vicinity of the station. No additional crossing points over Wilshire are planned.
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