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"  The choice of who would design the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, at Michigan State University, pivoted on an unexpected remark by a petite dynamo. During jury deliberations a few years ago, Dolores Wharton, the wife of a former MSU president and a member of many a cultural and corporate board, broke through a tense silence when she singled out an unusual design entry no other juror had noticed, or possibly even understood. This &amp;quot;sleek, elegant&amp;quot; blueprint, Wharton said, was &amp;quot;the BMW of all the entries.&amp;quot; The nimble realization of the design, by Zaha Hadid \u2014 the Iraqi-British architect who won the Pritzker prize in 2004 \u2014 is now idling at the edge of the campus, along East Lansing&amp;#039;s main street, East Grand River Avenue, an avant-garde architectural calling card for the land-grant university and a credit to both president Lou Anna K. Simon and Eli Broad, the museum&amp;#039;s principal benefactor. Low, streamlined, and sheathed in pleated stainless steel, the angular three-story building, when it catches the sun, seems to be waiting for the light to turn. The University and Broad shared a vision from the beginning. The MSU alum wanted an iconic structure, and provost Kim Wilcox called for an affordable sydney Opera house. Ambitious and dynamic, the Broad Museum is also efficient and compact, maximizing gallery space while minimizing corridors. The building, a kind of Cubist ziggurat, has tremendous charisma. Despite the pieties about museum architecture needing to showcase, not eclipse, the collections within, most contemporary artists admit that they prefer a building that is not merely respectful but beautiful and even important \u2014 one that lets visitors feel that they have entered a special precinct, a little like a church or cathedral, that elevates the work on display. Hadid has created an aura of wonder around a walk-in work of art. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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