Saban Building

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The Saban Building is a historic Art Deco landmark on Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard, originally built as a May Company department store and now part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Art Deco building
building
former department store
historic landmark
museum building
adjacentTo Los Angeles County Museum of Art
architect Albert C. Martin Sr.
Samuel A. Marx
architecturalStyle Art Deco
Streamline Moderne
constructionEndDate 1939
constructionStartDate 1938
country United States
currentUse exhibition space for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
donorForRenovationName Cheryl Saban
Haim Saban
formerName May Company Building
hasUse education spaces
galleries
theaters
heritageStatus protected historic structure
historicDesignationDate 1992
historicDesignationNumber 566
locatedInNeighborhood Miracle Mile
locatedOn Wilshire Boulevard
location California
Los Angeles
United States
material gold-tile mosaic
limestone
name Saban Building
namedAfter Cheryl Saban
Haim Saban
notableFeature gold-tiled cylindrical corner tower
notableFor prominent presence on Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile
openedAsDepartmentStore 1939
originalFunction department store
originalOwner May Company California
owner Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
partOf Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
partOfComplex LACMA–Academy Museum campus
renamed Saban Building
renamingYear 2017
renovationForMuseumUse 2010s
state California
streetAddress 6067 Wilshire Boulevard

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May Company Wilshire alsoKnownAs Saban Building
May Company Building alsoKnownAs Saban Building
Saban Building name Saban Building
Saban Building renamed Saban Building