The Broad at 221 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Gensler. Eli and Edythe Broad financed it. Plans were announced in August 2010, and it opened on September 20, 2015. The article names no style. It describes the concept as "the veil and the vault."
The veil is a lattice of fiberglass-reinforced concrete panels over a 650-ton diagonal steel structure. The vault is a concrete core, 5 feet (1.5 m) thick, that holds storage. The building is 110 feet (34 m) high with six stories and about 120,000 square feet (11,000 m²). Galleries cover 50,000 square feet (4,600 m²), with 318 skylight monitors.
The collection has nearly 2,000 works by about 200 artists, including 129 by Cindy Sherman. General admission to the permanent collection is free. A 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m²) expansion was announced in March 2024. The article gives no hours.
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