The California Science Center has built something remarkable — the Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center, a 200,000-sf expansion designed by ZGF Architects that will permanently house the Space Shuttle Endeavour in its full launch-stack configuration. This isn’t just a museum: a towering 200-ft shuttle gallery, a stainless-steel diagrid structure built around seismic isolators, and three multi-level galleries (Air, Space, Shuttle) that evoke the fluid geometry of the orbiter itself. This project plays a major role in the next chaptre of Los Angeles’ science and education landscape, and it’s been incredible to capture its evolution.
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