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LACMA’s Sprawling New Megalith Is Extremely Los Angeles

Critical consensus is in for Peter Zumthor’s $724 million concrete squiggle. Plus: Canadian travel, Arizona dining and thoughtful shirt design.

Zumthor’s swooping gray megalith hovers over the LACMA site like an alien transport ship.Photographer: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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By Felix Salmon

April 25, 2026 at 11:30 AM UTC

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