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AM2.jobs Opening date set for LA’s US$140m The Broad
The Broad – a new contemporary art museum in Los Angeles – is set to open to the public on 20 September 2015. The US$140m (€123m, £91.6m) museum is being funded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, founders of the The Broad Art Foundation whose assets total US$2.6bn (€2.2bn, £1.7bn). Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in collaboration with Gensler, the museum has been dubbed “the veil and vault”, referring to it’s dual use as an exhibition space and an archive. Currently under construction, the
120,000sq ft (11,148sq m) project will offer two floors of gallery space centered around the ‘vault’, the Broad Foundations’ archive. Whereas most galleries or museums aim to push their archives out of sight, The Broad’s design means that the archives play a key role in a visitor experience. By incorporating the ‘vault’ into the design, an element of mystery is added into the mix when visiting the gallery; although visitors
The Broad under construction in Downtown LA will open to the public on 20 September
will be able to see the exhibitions on display, the intrigue of what’s in storage and just out of reach will add a new layer to the experience. With construction well underway, the Broad
Foundation offered the public the chance to get a taste of what the museum will be like when complete, with an event held on 15 February. More:
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Immersive Star Wars attraction to open at Madame Tussauds London
Players ‘time travel’ using a virtual HUD
Virtual planetarium launched on Oculus Rift
US-based company Leap Motion has unveiled a new program using the Oculus Rift technology combined with its own hand-tracking sensors that allows users to explore a virtual planetarium. Using the combined Oculus Rift and
Leap Motion technology, players use their hands to travel around the world and then ‘time travel’ using a virtual arm-mounted heads up display (HUD). The technology also allows users to reach out and ‘grab’ star constellations, revealing distances and temperatures. More:
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A new Star Wars-themed experience is set to open at Madame Tussauds London. Scheduled for May, the multi-million pound immersive experience will feature 16 wax-figure characters, including Princess Leia, Jabba the Hutt and Obi-Wan Kenobi, plus a number of walk-in sets to authentically portray some of the franchise’s most famous moments. “At ‘Star Wars at Madame
Tussauds’, guests will be able to get close to their film heroes, star alongside them and grab a selfie in specially recreated scenes of some of their favourite movie moments,” said Ben
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Join Yoda in the swamps on Dagobah as part of the attraction
Sweet, Madame Tussauds London general manager.” The Merlin-operated
attraction worked alongside Disney, the IP owner, and Lucasfilm to recreate the characters, costumes and
scenery. The move comes shortly after Disney CEO Bob Iger announced Star Wars would play a much more prominent role ahead of the December 2015 film release. More:
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