The Paley Center for Media Beverly Hills

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills is located prominently at the corner of North Beverly Drive and Little Santa Monica Boulevard. Flooded with natural light and open to the street, this two-storey building is the result of the remodelling and rearrangement of an existing structure. Set between two newly glazed planes, one for each public façade, the main volume is highly visible from the sidewalk, and vice versa. The North Beverly Drive entrance is set back from the property line in order to create a threshold at the entrance, a top-lit cylindrical lobby that is the symbolic centre of the museum. The lobby affords access to the gallery, the 150-seat theatre, the Radio Studio and the Listening Room. The information desk, the museum shop, and a multi-purpose education room are on the ground floor, off the lobby. Visitors reach the second floor via a stepped ramp that penetrates the rotunda and overlooks the exhibition space (text from Arcspace.com).