Christian de Portzamparc will build a film museum in Hollywood

Los Angeles - The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not only award Oscars, but will also build a movie museum. Academy President Sid Ganis announced today that the ambitious museum will be designed by renowned French architect Christian de Portzamparc.
According to the academy, it will be the largest film museum in the world. It will be located on a 3.24-acre site in the heart of Hollywood, not far from the Kodak Theatre, where the academy awards the Oscars every year. If all goes well, construction is expected to begin in 2009 and the first visitors could come three years later.
However, de Portzamparc must first deliver the design and the academy needs to secure funding. According to American media, the budget is discussed to be around 400 million dollars, and it is expected that the academy will start raising funds next year.
Sixty-three-year-old de Portzamparc is the only Frenchman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which is the most prestigious award for architects. He designed, for example, the Cité de la Musique music museum in the Paris suburb of La Villette, the French Embassy in Berlin, and the New York headquarters of the French company LVMH.