The new central concourse also allows museumgoers to make more logical connections, progressing historically, for example, from the ancient archaeology of the region through the Ottoman period, then to the Judaica and Ethnography collection describing Jewish life dispersed from the Holy Land.
In addition to the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, the first phase includes an airy solar-powered entrance pavilion, financed with a $25 million donation from — and somewhat controversially named for — the oil company BP; a central concourse connecting the campus's westernmost structure with the 1965 buildings to the east; and a new grand staircase in the atrium of the Ahmanson Building.
Located in the basement floor of the central concourse on 'First Street'.
The concourse is loaded with bars, from which you can take a drink back to your seat, or, as a number of people were doing, simply post up with a cocktail as if they were in the meatpacking district.
Drawn up by Hal Hayes of H3 and four airport planners, the plan would preserve the remote gate areas, from which new concourses would telescope.
At Piccadilly Circus, one of the busiest stations on the system, Holden designed (1925 28) a spacious travertine-lined circulating concourse and ticket hall below the roadway of the junction from which banks of escalators gave access to the platforms below.
He had been down to the B1 level, one floor down from the concourse, which, he said, was deep enough for him.
From the concourse, which is decorated with wall-relief sculptures, steps lead to upper and lower public service areas, a cafeteria and carparks.
It has three escalators to the station concourse from the Piccadilly line, which serves not just London commuters but international businessmen and tourists travelling to and from Heathrow.
