teamLab, the Tokyo art collective behind some of the most visited immersive art spaces in the world, is opening its first permanent museum in the United States. It will be in Anaheim, California, a few miles from Disneyland, and is scheduled to open in 2030.
The museum will anchor OCVIBE, a 100-acre sports, entertainment and arts district under construction next to the Honda Center, the developer announced on October 29. The building is planned at about 110,000 square feet.
A building that changes colour with the sun
Because teamLab’s galleries are largely windowless, the architects have treated the outside as a skin. The design, by smith-clementi with LPA as architect of record, wraps the building in a scale-like pattern whose colour shifts with the sunlight through the day. It will sit across from ARTIC, Anaheim’s glass-walled transit centre, and be visible from the freeway.
Julie Smith-Clementi said the design takes its cue from teamLab’s interest in movement in nature, and changes as visitors approach, as the light moves and as clouds pass…