The 55,000-square-foot addition will break ground next year in conjunction with the wildly popular museum’s tenth anniversary, with plans to open to the public just ahead of L.A.’s 2028 Summer Olympics.
The shortlisted designs—from David Chipperfield Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Johnston Marklee, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, and Weiss/Manfredi—are now open for public comment.
The six newly announced finalist teams will participate in a public forum in May ahead of showcasing their plans to revamp the Texas institution at an exhibition this summer.
The winners of the AIA’s 2022 Architecture Awards span from the modernization of Seattle’s Space Needle to a high school in suburban Massachusetts to the new U.S. embassy in London.