Designs for Nicolas Berggruen’s mountaintop thinktank revealed

The designs for the new Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles founded by the art collector and billionaire Nicolas Berggruen have been revealed. The high-profile Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meurons plans for the institute campus encompass a linear park, or gardened plinth moulded from concrete and wood, according to the Los Angeles Times.Berggruen has bought a 447-acre plot in the Santa Monica Mountains, north of the Getty Center, for the political and cultural thinktank. The new insti