This project is an expansion to the existing Los Angeles County Museum of Art and includes a glass entrance pavilion containing a shop, café, restaurant and donors’ room that will appear to float within a spacious plaza.  Also included in this expansion are a tunnel, lobby, central plant, and interactive spaces to connect the existing East and West wings of the museum, as well as a new gallery to house the Broad contemporary art collection. Part of this expansion includes a temporary gallery for housing special exhibits, as well as a new 300 car underground parking garage.

A unique feature of the new Broad Museum is the fact that visitors take an exterior escalator to the top floor to enter the building; then work their way through the museum toward the ground floor. As with any museum, special care had to be taken to ensure optimum light and interior environmental controls to protect the art pieces housed within.

Size:     
65,000 gross square feet

Construction Cost:   
$120 million

Status:     
Completed in February 2008

We worked closely with the Museum during the programming/concept design stage to align the scope and design quality of the project with available funding, and throughout the design phase we worked alongside the construction manager in order to provide peer reviews of their cost reports and to provide appropriate value engineering advice.