Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
LJC is partnering with Diller Scofidio + Renfro on an expansion of The Broad, a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles. The design team focused on careful integration of the addition with the existing building completed in 2015, expanding upon its “veil and vault” visual language. The original design utilized a white façade with geometric perforations, a “veil” draped over the building core beneath, which performs as the art storage “vault.” The expansion inverts this relationship by bringing the materiality of the original vault to the building’s exterior, indicating a promise of even greater access to the museum’s collection in the expanded Broad.
The addition provides gallery space on three levels—an increase of 70% for the museum—as well as two, top-floor, open-air courtyards, a new experience of the art storage vault that invites visitors into a room with painting racks, allowing unexpected themes to emerge as various works are pulled out from visit to visit, and a flexible programming space for live performances.
The Broad’s overarching goal is to create access to contemporary art for the widest possible audience. The expansion strengthens its capabilities to not only showcase its current collection—comprising more than 2,000 artworks by 200 artists—but to grow it as well. The addition will allow the museum to build upon its momentum, offering its growing audience entirely new experiences and supporting a range of live programming to reach visitors in Los Angeles and beyond.
Images courtesy the artists and The Broad, © Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), renderings by Plomp
Rendering of a future gallery in the expanded Broad, featuring artworks from the Broad collection, from left to right: Amy Sherald, Kingdom, 2022; Elliott Hundley, Changeling, 2020; Patrick Martinez, Migration is Natural, 2021, picture me rollin’, 2016, Psychic Friends (Malcolm X), 2022, and They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds (Dinos Christianopoulos), 2022; and, in the back gallery, Mark Bradford, Corner of Desire and Piety, 2008 and Helter Skelter I, 2007.
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