Editing Renzo Piano (section)

===Los Angeles County Museum of Art (BCAM and Resnick Pavilion), Los Angeles (2003–2010)===
Commissioned to design a "transformation" of the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], Piano designed a new building, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA (BCAM) (2008), with {{cvt|5574|sqm}} of space, as well as the BP Grand Entrance, an entrance pavilion with {{cvt|750|sqm}} of space, and the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion (2010). The BCAM facade is concrete covered with plaques of cream-colored Italian travertine, harmonizing with the older buildings of the museum complex, but added distinctive Piano touches; finlike white sun shutters on the roof softening the sunlight, a red escalator on the outside of the main facade, and a stairway suspended by red cables on the other facade, reminiscent of the Centre Pompidou. The Resnik Pavilion, to the north of the BCAM, has {{cvt|4180|sqm}} of space, with travertine covered walls to the east and west, glass walls on the north and south, and a roof with vertical glass shutters that open to the sky. Describing this project, Piano wrote:  "It's not enough that the light is perfect. You also have a need for calm, serenity, and even a quality of voluptuousness connected with the contemplation of a work of art."{{Sfn|Jodidio|2016|page=77}} Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic of ''The New York Times'', admired the interior of the BCAM but was less impressed by the exteriors: "There is little of the formal freedom that is at the heart of the city's architectural legacy; nor is there much evidence of the structural refinement that we have come to expect in Mr. Piano's best work. The museum's monumental travertine form and lipstick-red exterior stairways are a curious mix of pomposity and pop-culture references. It's an architecture without conviction."<ref>''New York Times'', 15 February 2008</ref>