Suspended Luxury by Zumthor

In Los Angeles, cultural luxury takes on a new suspended form: the David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor, Swiss master of constructed silence and contemporary sacred spaces. The building, a vast ribbon of golden concrete floating above Wilshire Boulevard, erases the museum hierarchy in favor of a continuous, almost meditative promenade. Here, art can be viewed without a set itinerary, bathed in natural light, in an architecture that rejects ostentation in favor of contemplation. It is a rare manifesto: that of discreet, fluid, essential luxury.