teamLab Museum Anaheim

The teamLab Museum Anaheim (a working name) gives the Tokyo art collective its first permanent home in the United States, a purpose-built building of about 110,000 square feet inside OCVIBE, the Samueli family's 100-acre sports, entertainment and arts district around the Honda Center. teamLab's galleries are borderless, immersive environments whose artworks shift with the people moving through them, so the interior is a largely windowless world of darkened rooms. smith-clementi, OCVIBE's master planners, wrapped that world in a shimmering, textured cloak whose scale-like pattern evokes movement in nature and changes color with the passing sunlight. The building anchors one end of the district beside the Orange Freeway, and it is designed as the solid, colorful counterpart to the glowing glass shell of the neighboring ARTIC transit center, forming a sculptural backdrop to OCVIBE's park. LPA is architect of record and is working with teamLab on the exhibitions. Around it, OCVIBE is assembling a concert hall, a chef-driven market hall, parks and trails, more than 2,000 residences and what it calls the nation's largest outdoor public art gallery.