This Should Be Interesting Lucas Museum Picks Mad Architects

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• George Lucas’s namesake museum gets an architect.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced today that the hot, young Chinese firm MAD Architects will design the building the museum is proposing to erect on two contested lakefront parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.

The selection of MAD may not be a game changer—it doesn’t negate questions about the site, the mission, and the collection—but at least it promises a building that’s a galaxy or two removed from the klutzy Spanish revival box Lucas had proposed for the location he originally wanted in San Francisco’s Presidio Park.