Christopher Hawthorne's early Broad museum tour: the tweets

Construction continues at the Broad museum at 2nd Street and Grand Avenue on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles.

Feb. 13, 2015 3:50 PM PT

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne took an early tour through the under-construction Broad museum on Friday and tweeted the experience. Get an early look at the structure through his eyes:

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Hawthorne's first impressions of the in-progress Broad museum

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Christopher Hawthorne

Christopher Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to March 2018. Before coming to The Times, he was architecture critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.” Hawthorne grew up in Berkeley and has a bachelor’s degree from Yale, where he readied himself for a career in criticism by obsessing over the design flaws in his dormitory, designed by Eero Saarinen.

Christopher Hawthorne’s early Broad museum tour: the tweets

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