MCA Universal, 1995-1996

People:

Larry Richards (architect)

Title:

MCA Universal, 1995-1996

Date:

1995-1996

Description:

During 1995-96, L.W. Richards was architectural advisor to Edgar Bronfman Jr., for the selection of an architect for a master plan and new headquarters building at Universal Studios, Los Angeles. The search that L.W. Richards conducted resulted in the selection of OMA and Rem Koolhaas. Two items are included here: a) bound notebook from the summer and fall of 1995, documenting meetings with Edgar Bronfman Jr., conversations with various architects (including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Peter Rose), and a record of the meeting between Edgar, Rem Koolhaas, and L.W. Richards in Malibu in which Rem was selected for the project, and b) spiral bound booklet, PLAN (vision plan for de development of Universal City) by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture and presented to MCA Inc., July 1996, no.58.

Form:
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 set(s)

Reference number:

DR2007:0021

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Larry Richards à l'occasion du 80ème anniversaire de Phyllis Lambert/
Gift of Larry Richards in honour of Phyllis Lambert's 80th birthday

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