Architect Elizabeth Diller [...] stood on the Grand Avenue sidewalk Friday morning in front of the Broad museum, which she designed with her New York firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and is set to open Sept. 20.
Was she giving an architectural preview? Doing damage control? Trying to regain some influence over the narrative of the museum’s construction, which has been beset by delays, fabrication problems and legal wrangling?
The answer seemed to be some combination of the three.
— latimes.com
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Wow, that shot does not flatter.
At least it's parallel to the street, not cranked. A bit of urbanism?
DS+R really needs to work on getting their finished stuff to look more like their renderings.
Or hire a better photographer.
Or they could self-write a monograph on how fantastic it is as the embodiment of a new paradigm in cheese graters.
There are a lot of interior shots of the main gallery floating around now and it looks really good.
It's just a little beige-ier than what in the renderings, but actually a lot mellower and not as aggressive than depicted so job well done I'd say.
I'm still mad at DSR over Folk MoMA, and always will be.
But setting that aside, I think this building looks like it will be one that will be cherished in 50 years. It's an exceptionally simple parti, and the facade may not look exactly like the rendering (what ever does?!) but I think the play of light both inside of the space and viewing the building outside as a changing object will be lovely.
It's easy to criticize this as being trendy or whatever, but in the long run I think this building, along with only a few of its contemporaries, will come to be seen as an excellent example of the experimental formal work that was being done in the two-thousand-teens.
That's making the assumption, of course, that some other firm doesn't come along and recommend that it be torn down in 12 years.
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