SoFi Stadium, host venue of Tremendous Bowl LVI and anchoring web site of the 2028 Summer time Olympics, is getting a flashy new neighbor at Hollywood Park, the burgeoning behemoth of an leisure complex-slash-mixed-use growth situated on the outdated Hollywood Park racetrack close to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in Inglewood, California.
As not too long ago introduced, Cosm, a world experiential media and immersive know-how firm, has signed on to open its first-ever public venue at Hollywood Park, the biggest city growth of its variety within the Western United States. That includes a roughly 87-foot diameter LED dome, the deliberate 65,000-square-foot venue will rise inside Hollywood Park’s sprawling retail district and is designed by the Los Angeles workplace of Dallas–headquartered HKS Architects, which additionally designed SoFi Stadium.
Development work on the yet-to-be-named, planetarium-esque venue is ready to kick-off this fall, forward of subsequent 12 months’s partial completion of part one in all Hollywood Park’s retail district. Per a press announcement shared this week with AN, a bulk (323,000 sq. toes) of the retail district’s first part, totaling a half-million sq. toes, will open to guests subsequent spring.
As for what variety of occasions will probably be held on the 1,700-capacity venue, it’s slated to be a mixture of what Cosm described as “stay sports activities and leisure, experiential occasions and content material, immersive artwork, music, and extra.” The forthcoming location is slated to be the “first venue of its variety to convey leisure to life by using Cosm’s revolutionary domed and compound curved LED know-how,” the corporate detailed, noting that company “will probably be ready immediately expertise immersive content material by the corporate’s proprietary, best-in-class know-how that seamlessly bridges the hole between digital and bodily realities.”
Sound heady.
“We’re redefining the way in which the world experiences content material and up-leveling fandom by opening our first Cosm venue within the middle of the leisure capital of the world,” detailed Jeb Terry, Cosm’s president and CEO, in a press release. “For many years, we’ve powered a few of the most iconic and entertaining experiences for our companions across the globe. Now, we’re powering our personal. Cosm isn’t only a place, it’s a sense. It’s the vitality of the group, the exhilaration of sitting courtside on the largest sporting occasions, the joys of standing entrance row at your dream live performance, the depth of being enveloped in immersive environments that it’s a must to expertise to imagine. Cosm is bringing that to life – first in Los Angeles, then world wide.”
You may view extra of Cosm’s work, together with on the Ennead Architects–designed Shanghai Astrology Museum, right here.
Becoming a member of Sofi Stadium—house to each the NFL’s Los Angles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers—together with the forthcoming retail district and just-announced Cosm venue throughout subsequent growth phases at Hollywood Park will probably be a number of million sq. toes of artistic workplace house, a resort, and as many as 2,500 residences. All the complicated will probably be anchored by 25 acres of parkland and open house designed by Studio-MLA, together with the already-completed Lake Park, a 12-acre inexperienced house flanking a big, stormwater-harvesting man-made water function.