Broad Museum - Los Angeles, U.S.A.

The much anticipated design for Eli Broad’s new downtown Los Angeles museum was unveiled Thursday at a press conference held at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The design, by New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is based on the concept of ‘the veil and the vault’ where the gallery (the veil) and the archive (the vault) are given equal play in the building with the archive treated as a main event around which the rest of the museum spaces are organised.

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The duality they've achieved with veil and archive, the opaque and the transparent, is great. The fluid aesthetic takes the execution of the duality to an exciting level which should draw more attention to the museum's collection. A standard glass box could have achieved the same design idea, but there's some aesthetic innovation with this project. I think that's important, lest we return to faux Deco as the "box" becomes banal and overdone.

I think the materials they use will be what makes or breaks this one.