The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, designed by the late Zaha Hadid, hasn’t lost its singular power.
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Is East Lansing Warming Up to Its Weirdest Building?
A decade since Zaha Hadid’s MSU Broad Art Museum opened, curators and builders look back at one of the few US works by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect.
Red brick and 90-degree angles shape much of Michigan State University’s East Lansing campus, a modest mix of facilities that reflect the school’s origins as an agricultural college in the 1850s and its postwar G.I. Bill-fueled expansion.
But one building proudly defies such tradition: Zaha Hadid’s MSU Broad Art Museum.