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More images of DSR’s design for new Broad museum

By Christopher Hawthorne
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As a warmup to the big downtown news conference set to begin later Friday morning, here are some renderings from architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro of Eli Broad’s new museum and archive building downtown.

The museum plans call for a 114,000-square-foot building on three floors at 2nd Street and Grand Avenue, with three levels of parking below. The top floor will include 33,000 square feet of column-free gallery space.

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More images in the photo gallery at right.

-- Christopher Hawthorne

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Christopher Hawthorne

Christopher Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to March 2018. Before coming to The Times, he was architecture critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.” Hawthorne grew up in Berkeley and has a bachelor’s degree from Yale, where he readied himself for a career in criticism by obsessing over the design flaws in his dormitory, designed by Eero Saarinen.

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