Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

Comments

• Jared

  July 2007

  The designs are respectively attributed to:
  
  1. COOP HIMME(L)BLAU
  2. Kohn Pederson Fox Associates PC
  3. Zaha Hadid Architects
  4. Randall Stout Architects Inc.
  5. Morphosis
• Jared

  July 2007

  I really can't make sense of the one by Hadid, the third one. It just doesn't look like a building, more like a decorative sidewalk. On the left side of the picture, you can see some height, but besides that it just doesn't look like a building from this angle.
• MichMatters

  July 2007 edited July 2007

  I was really expecting something much more colorful from all of them. These are look rather bland. What's with all of the grey and concrete?
  
  If I had to chose one it would be Morphosis (last one), as the height would actually make an impact. The others designs all look kind of timid.
• MichMatters

  July 2007

  Here is a link with a video at WILX where the architects personally explain their projects:
  
  MSU Art Museum Designs Unveiled
  
  It gives a bit more context to the discussion, and I do understand Hadid's design, now.
• hood

  July 2007

  I like the last one best also, but the first one is alright too.
• mindbender

  July 2007 edited July 2007

  I'm leaning toward #5 or #2. I dig the slightly sub-ground-level entrance (or at least the appearance of), and the glassy whale shape of #2.
  
  For any of them, they'll definitely stand out against that part of campus! In fact it's almost hard to picture them there, or how they'll be oriented.
  
  I can't watch the video at work, so I'll check it out when I get home.
• mindbender

  July 2007

  And honestly, what's with the squiggles drawn all over the rendering on #1. I mean, I realize these guys are trying to be avant-garde and modern, but come on... squiggles?
• Jared

  July 2007 edited July 2007

  I really like #2. They say that at night, #2 will glow, so that could be really cool while walking down Grand River.
• Sparty73

  July 2007

  Mine = #1, It's fairly asthetically pleasing as long as it's not covered in what appears to be giant strings of spaghetti
  
  #2 = An oversized bubble
  
  #3 = The world's largest solar powered museum
  
  #4 = Not too bad, but weird and waivy
  
  #5 = Wayyyyyyyyyy to tall/overbearing
• reversiblehatt

  July 2007

  Is it just me, or is #4 a Gehry rip off? #3 is incomprehensible and unintelligible. I don't mind #1 or #5, but I like #2, especially if the lighting bit is true...