The Broad
In August 2010, Eli Broad formally announced that he would build a museum in Downtown Los Angeles. He agreed to pay $7.7 million for a 99-year lease. Officially characterized as a grant, the money subsidized affordable-housing units at The Emerson, a high-rise residential tower next to the museum. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the 120,000-square-foot building features two floors of gallery space and is the headquarters of the Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library. Its innovative “veil-and-vault” design wraps the collection storage area, home to nearly 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art, with an airy, honeycomb-like structure that spans across the block-long gallery and provides filtered natural daylight. Since opening in 2015, the Broad has welcomed more than 900,000 visitors from around the world per year.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare