In Progress: Broad Art Museum / Zaha Hadid

Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum

In 2007, Zaha Hadid won an international design competition for the Broad Art Museum on the campus of Michigan State University. The 4000 m2 building, which is donated by alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, will provide ample space for large art installations and galleries dedicated to “international contemporary culture and ideas through art.” The design takes cues from the surrounding topography as the volume seeks to extend and emphasize existing circulatory and visual connections. Manifested in a series of pleats, the building’s abstracted connections create linear perpsective lines that change are the vistor moves past and through the building, “creating great curiosity yet never fully revealing its content,” explained Hadid. Ground breaking began in March of 2010, and now, construction is nearing completion on the project, which is slated to open in April of this year.

Check out more construction photos, along with the competition proposal renderings, after the break.

Construction Photos via designboom. Project Images via Zaha Hadid.

Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum. Shot on January of 2011. © John Sullivan Aerial Associates Photography
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum. Construction Reaching Ground Level
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum. Entrance.
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum. Stainless Pleats
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum
Courtesy of the Broad Art Museum. Entrance.
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Cite: Karen Cilento. "In Progress: Broad Art Museum / Zaha Hadid" 02 Jan 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/196661/in-progress-broad-art-museum-zaha-hadid> ISSN 0719-8884

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