News: Michigan State University has unveiled the first photographs of its Zaha Hadid-designed museum of contemporary art, which opens to the public next month.
Featuring a pleated stainless steel facade, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum stands in contrast to the brick buildings of the university's Collegiate Gothic north campus.
Zaha Hadid won a competition in 2008 to design the museum, which contains 1600 square metres of exhibition space, alongside an education wing, study centre, cafe, shop and outdoor sculpture garden. The three-storey building has one basement floor and features double-height galleries for showing modern art, photography, new media and works on paper.
The museum opens on 9 November with the inaugural exhibitions Global Groove 1973/2012, an exploration into current trends in video art, and In Search of Time, which investigates the relationship to time and memory in art.
See images of the competition-winning design for the museum in our story from 2008, or see images of the final design in our most recent update.
Other new projects by Zaha Hadid include a pop-up hair salon in London and a streamlined government building in Montpellier.
See all our stories about Zaha Hadid »
Photography is by Paul Warchol.
Guess you can call this “architecture with teeth”!
Somehow the word “shark” pops into my mind.
Damn sexy, apparently. Should have teased us with some interior shots as well.
Am I the only person who sees a giant, angular shark?! :)
Great design but the detailing is sh*t as always!
Yes, I like the air handling unit, very nice. Do you have any pictures of the museum though?
Big. Square. Shark. I love it.
Looks terrible! Zaha Hadid is overrated.
Creative and fresh.
Bingo – all of a sudden I’m one of her fans. Love it.
This would be perfect as a "Jaws" museum!
Trailer home meets displacement map.
Hideous. Appalling. Shocking that anyone thinks this is good. Enough of Hadid’s monstrosities. Why does she hate us so much? Pritzker? You have to be kidding! Liked the comment about the air handling unit though.
What on earth was Hadid thinking?! It's amateurish and just plain horrid.
Looks like a dead whale.
Feels like it’s saying “danger, nuclear waste storage”.
It's giant Gillette multiple razor heads slammed together.
Sharkitecture?