The new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even bigger

In true Los Angeles fashion, two of the most momentous developments in the city’s recent history came thisclose to perfectly lining up on the civic calendar but couldn’t quite manage it in the end.

Peter Zumthor’s $724 million David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles Museum of Art opened on April 19. Today brings the debut of three new stops along the D Line, the L.A. subway route beneath Wilshire Boulevard, part of a $9.7 billion westward extension of that line that by the end of next year will connect downtown and the Westwood district, near UCLA, by rail.