Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum

Set to open its doors on November 9^th, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University was designed by Zaha Hadid.  The charge given by the university was a piece of architecture that would serve as a symbol of MSU’s trajectory into the future, and would stand out from the rest of the traditional brick Gothic campus.  However, the 4,000-square-meter building was also to honor the connection between old and new.  Hadid’s winning design echoes and extends the many circulatory and visual connections that surround it in a series of pleats, most notably in its pleated stainless steel façade.  The three-storey structure contains 1,600 square meters of exhibition space, an education wing, study center, café, and shop, and is met outdoors by a sculpture garden.