Eli Broad’s much anticipated museum finally unveiled the design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro to the public today. First of all, I have a very difficult time taking firms that use a plus sign instead of an ampersand or just the word “and” seriously because, really? Anywho, back to the design. Bluntly put it’s a rhombus looking cube with a concrete (concrete!?) honeycomb skin that makes a “flirtatious gesture in the direction of Disney Hall,” Christopher Hawthorne’s words, not mine. The honeycomb of the skin is elongated in such a way towards the highest “flirtatious” point, it actually just looks like it is being sucked into a vortex, and not a good one.
Alexis Hyde
Alexis Hyde sweats art, willingly, and it’s not always pretty. She is passionately driven to blog about, write about and to study art. Alexis lives in LA and wages her very breath on discovering the best of the finer arts in her fair and far-flung city. She tumbls at HydeOrDie.
