NYA is the Structural Engineer of Record for this new museum designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum and parking garage is a 6-story, 110’ tall structure occupying a city block at Grand Ave. & 2nd St. and enclosing about 250,000 SF. Typical floors are two-way concrete slabs spanning to concrete columns sitting on a mix of spread footings and belled caissons. The lateral system is special reinforced concrete shear walls with long perimeter walls on the North & South sides of the building and short buttressing walls in the opposite direction.

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