A rendering of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, to open in 2010 at Michigan State University in East Lansing (Image: Zaha Hadid Architects)

Starchitects Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have been in the news lately. Gehry will design the 2008 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion.

“Every year since 2000, the Serpentine, a former tearoom located in London’s Hyde Park, asks an architect or artist to put up a provisional structure that serves as a venue for evening talks and events, and, by day, as a cafe. Previous pavilion architects Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas have, like Gehry, been winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.”
(Source: Bloomberg)

Zaha Hadid has won the design competition for the $26 million Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, which will focus on modern and contemporary art.

“Ms. Hadid, known for bold, unconventional forms, was selected last week in a competition that began in June, when the Broads gave $26 million toward the $40 million museum, which will house modern and contemporary art. The other finalists were Morphosis of Santa Monica, Calif.; Coop Himmelb(l)au of Vienna and Los Angeles; Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects of New York; and Randall Stout Architects of Los Angeles.”
(Source: New York Times)