Broad Museum Picks Design Finalists

January 23, 2009

More American Museum Cutbacks: A Roundup (New York, US)
As reported last month (The Art Newspaper, January 2008), a number of museums have announced that they are cutting back on operating costs in the face of a continuing global recession. On New Year's Eve, the Austin Museum of Art shelved plans to build a new $23m branch in downtown Austin after Houston-based developer Hines Interests withdrew its plans to purchase land from the museum.

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Design Finalists Picked For New Broad Collection Museum (Beverley Hills, LA, US)
Last month AN reported on philanthropist Eli Broad's new plan for a museum in Beverly Hills, on the western edge of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards. If approved, the five-story building would contain 118,500 square feet of office space on four levels and 68,000 square feet of museum gallery space, archives, and street-level retail. Now AN has learned from a source that the shortlist for an invited competition to design the museum includes Thom Mayne, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Rafael Viñoly, and Christian de Portzamparc.
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