A 70-foot crane served as the backdrop at the groundbreaking event for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Orange banners and carpeting announced the event outside the historic Beverly Hills Post Office.
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A character dressed in a theater costume and construction gear posed at the event.
Photo: Vince Bucci
Wolfgang Puck set up food stations atop orange construction fencing.
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The Beverly Hills High School drum line performed.
Photo: Vince Bucci
Scaffolding added to the construction-minded look.
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Renderings and details about the project were on view in the space.
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Whitney American Art Award Dinner
MKG took the groundbreaking theme literally by hanging blue shovels from the ceiling of the dinner tent.
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City Council member Peter F. Vallone Jr. and architect Thomas Leeser used game controllers to "dig" and "build" the museum.
Photo: Ixiana Hernandez/Courtesy of Museum of the Moving Image
