The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles was designed by Renzo Piano and Kulapat Yantrasast, per the infobox. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences owns and oversees it. The article describes the base as the 1939 May Company building in a Streamline Moderne style, and gives no construction start. Delayed by COVID-19, it opened to the public on September 30, 2021.
New work includes limestone on the exterior and gold leaf tiles on the corner cylinder. A spherical structure joined by skyways includes the glass-domed Dolby Family Terrace. The Saban Building is named for a $50 million gift from Cheryl and Haim Saban.
The David Geffen Theater seats 945 or 952, per differing figures, and the Ted Mann Theater seats 277. The Stories of Cinema exhibition fills the first three floors. The article gives no hours.
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