JPL tabs architect Maltzan
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan to design a building that will house both the administration and an education and visitors center, JPL President Charles Elachi said Friday.
Although budget problems have threatened the project’s funding, Elachi said he hoped the building would be completed by early 2009. “We’re hoping in three to four months from now to have some drawings,” he said.
Maltzan, 46, whose firm is in Silver Lake, is best known for designing the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary location in Queens. The firm also designed Westwood’s Billy Wilder Theater, which will begin construction next month and be programmed by the UCLA Hammer Museum and the university’s Film and Television Archive.
“One of the things about JPL that’s so compelling is what a creative and dynamic culture it is,” Maltzan said.
Maltzan’s firm also designed the new Kidspace facility in Pasadena, some of which has opened and some of which remains to be built
Scott Timberg
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