The surprises keep coming at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). After learning that the museum plans to shift its proposed Peter Zumthor–designed building southward (partially bridging Wilshire Boulevard) to avoid damaging the La Brea Tar Pits, now comes news that the museum is hoping to partner with LA’s transit agency, METRO, to build a tower across the street.

LACMA Director Michael Govan’s choice for an architect? Frank Gehry. “That’s my dream,” Govan told the LA Times‘ Christopher Hawthorne. “I’m jealous that New York has a Gehry tower and we don’t.”

The tower would be located near Wilshire and Fairfax, near the site of the current A+D Architecture + Design Museum, which is being torn down to make way for a staging ground for Metro’s Purple Line expansion. Ironically Govan said he hopes to build his own Architecture and Design wing there. No word on the tower’s design or height, or on whether it will even happen. But Gehry has acknowledged discussing the plan with Govan. “I’m open to it,” he told Hawthorne. So far Govan and Gehry have been unavailable for comment to AN.

There are so many obstacles standing in the way of these grand schemes. But a post on LACMA’s blog points out that if they go ahead, one block of LA’s Miracle Mile will contain designs by three Pritzker Prize winners— Gehry, Zumthor, and Renzo Piano, who not only designed two new buildings for LACMA, but is designing (now solo) the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum.