I've got it. The Lucas Museum is an homage to Space Mountain!
@AldReilly @stevevance @BlairKamin pic.twitter.com/YMzo3d8ZvP
— Patrick Monaghan (@pkmonaghan) November 4, 2014
Contemporary architecture fans and haloed moon mountain enthusiasts might want to thank San Francisco for rejecting the extremely tame museum George Lucas wanted to build on the Presidio's Commissary site. Lucas's chosen architectural team, the Beijing-based firm MAD Architects (with Studio Gang on board as landscape architects), recently revealed renderings of the planned museum, and no one can quite come to consensus on what the conical white vanity structure resembles most. A nuclear reactor wearing a beret? A grimacing Shmoo? Popular answers include Space Mountain, a volcano, and, of course, Jabba the Hutt. That's the beauty of contemporary architecture: The list of cultural referents is potentially endless, like a collective game of CAD-juiced Pictionary that no one is winning.
And @BlairKamin is right: the Chicago LucasLand DOES look like a metallic Jabba the Hutt. http://t.co/B27P2gFbCW
— John King (@JohnKingSFChron) November 4, 2014
@Gizmodo Proposed design of George Lucas' Art Museum looks like a futuristic concept from an early-mid 20th century World's Fair.
— Heather Flores (@CalamityBrain) November 3, 2014
First look: The George Lucas Museum is like a pyramid from the future http://t.co/QDTQH4Ljaa by @ctrlzee via @FastCoDesign
— Paul Wiggins (@paulwiggins) November 4, 2014
Is it really just me who thinks the Lucas Museum *should* look all sci-fi and space-agey? http://t.co/5j3pSZjkji
— Laurel Miltner (@laurelmackenzie) November 4, 2014
Chicago to get its own mountain...or maybe it's a volcano with that ring of smoke at the top http://t.co/pcRvozf2fw pic.twitter.com/jWu8Ku53TA
— Sustainable Chicago (@SustainableChi) November 4, 2014
· MAD's Lucas Museum is a Moon Mountain with a 'Floating' Halo [Curbed National]
· You're Welcome, World [Curbed SF]
· Presidio Passes on All Proposals, Including Lucas Museum [Curbed SF]
· How the Lucas Museum Design Will Change Chicago's Lakefront [Curbed Chicago]