Ever since Diller Scofido & Renfro unveiled their sexy new rehab of Lincoln Center, the place has been a magnet for surprising design: Wet’s frisky fountain, Fashion Week’s footwear fetishists, the bizarre spectacle of super-slow dancers Eiko + Koma emerging like wraiths from the reflecting pool.

But it was still surprising to wander down Broadway late last week and find a 123 x 12 foot digital wall sloping down below street level displaying what looked like a bathtub’s worth of blue LED bubbles draining into the parking garage.

Anxiously anticipated designs were released today for the Broad, a new museum for Los Angeles's downtown which nearly everyone agrees is the biggest project to hit L.A., maybe since Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall (which is, incidentally, just up the hill). The honeycomb-textured cube was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, designers of the High Line and newly renovated Lincoln Center, who were announced as the architects by philanthropist Eli Broad in August. Read More »