The width with its outdoor area and the large eye or “Oculus” with a view to the Grand Avenue in the city center of La BRCHEN today an expansion that adds 55,000 square meters and offers more galleries, programming rooms and open prisoners. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architects behind the current building, have developed this addition. It comes when the museum celebrates its 10th anniversary and works by post-war artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as contemporary such as Cindy Sherman and Kara Walker.
The cultural critic Carolina Miranda explains that the employees expected 250,000 visitors a year at the opening of the building in 2015 and that over 900,000 are now available.
“There are often considerable lines to reach. So an expansion is probably not a bad idea. I mean, someone does Really Do you need an expansion of the museum? That is a completely different question, ”she says.
The original building was a concrete core with a memory for the art collection of Eli Broad, which was covered by a fiberglass-reinforced concrete honeycomb pattern, which was described as a veil and is more loving than “cheese tire”, she explains.
Now the architects invert this idea for the expansion, which is carried out in a smooth, polished concrete and is located at the back of the building. The view will be a “spaghetti of streets that lead from hope [St.] Figueroa [St.]And the U -Bahn station is right there. ”
Miranda says she is ambivalent about the design.
“I dig this cavernous concrete lobby, which probably doesn't make me popular with many architectural critics, but there is only something about this geological feeling that you get there when you get there that I like, together with the long escalator that you are in this tube, which you will then be born in the galleries of the third floor. I think this experience is quite great.”
She continues: “But I think the facade … has always felt a bit uncomfortable. And when it rains, it gets streaked and disgusting. And I also think that there are problems with the layout of the galleries internally that could definitely use some work.”