The 'Broad' vision

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Billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Thursday unveiled the design for the downtown museum that will bear their name and house their 2,000-piece collection of contemporary art.Tony Castro in the Daily News

"It will be called simply 'The Broad,'" said Broad, whose museum will be the cornerstone of hiscq Grand Avenue vision for the renaissance of downtown Los Angeles.

The three-story museum will feature almost an acre of column-free display space enclosed with what the architects describe as a porous honeycomb "veil," visible through a top-floor, sky-lit gallery.


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