Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Architect Zoltan Pali, who designed the new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, stands inside the old Beverly Hills Post Office that is now part of the center in Beverly Hills.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Visitors spend time in the Grand Hall in the old Beverly Hills Post Office that is now part of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on October 17, 2013. Overhead are some of the eight rare “lunettes” or murals that were created by artist Charles Kassler in 1936.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A worker paints a wall inside a remodeled interior of the old Beverly Hills Post Office that is now part of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on October 17, 2013.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A visitor exits the Grand Hall in the old Beverly Hills Post Office that is now part of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on October 17, 2013.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)