Finalists Known Worldwide for Contemporary Designs
The five finalists selected this week to compete for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art renovation and expansion design have all attracted international attention.
Steven Holl’s Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art opened in Helsinki in 1999. He is now working on the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., and an undergraduate residence hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rem Koolhaas has completed the Congrexpo conference center in Lille, France, and the Kunsthalle in his native Rotterdam, Netherlands. The winner of the 2000 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor, Koolhaas is designing a library in Seattle and a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.
Daniel Libeskind’s celebrated Jewish Museum in Berlin was completed last year. He has since landed major commissions for an addition to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the San Francisco Jewish Museum.
Thom Mayne has emerged as a major talent on the Los Angeles scene since the completion of his Diamond Ranch High School building in Pomona. He is designing a federal courthouse building in Eugene, Ore.
Jean Nouvel is best known for the jewel-like Cartier Foundation building and the Arab Institute, both in Paris.
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