An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles’s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, “was always meant to be a generous civic space,” the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it “gateway” between the museum and the city. This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the public, fences lined with plastic greenery “blocked entry to the plaza from both sides,” per the Times. It called the fences “a shockingly makeshift solution for a museum that cost over $1 billion,” while also noting that they will be replaced by permanent ones in stainless steel. Both the museum and architect confirmed through spokespeople that “the plaza’s main entryways will remain gated off.” Related Articles Museum spokesperson Seth Fowler told the Times that the change resulted from a need to protect the pedestrian plaza from car traffic on both sides, as well as a need to control …