The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, is as unique as the industry it represents. One part of the brand-new museum—the sphere—has a glass rooftop dome that required the superior structural capacity found in SaflexStructural (DG41) PVB interlayers instead of standard PVB interlayers.
Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa, Italy, the Academy Museum is housed in the historic May Company Building (now called the Saban Building) in Los Angeles. Glass bridges lead to the glass dome. The lower half of the sphere is the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater. The all-glass top half of the sphere features a rooftop terrace under the stars.