Months after a scrapped groundbreaking date for Michigan State University's Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum had come and gone, its postponement the result of extended design delays, The State News, the university's student paper, reported the $40-million project had hit another potential snag. East Lansing-area trades, the paper noted, were reluctant to bid on it.
As planned, the 46,000-sq-ft facility contained not a single squared-off corner. All vertical surfaces were skewed. Potential bidders would need to extract their own dimensions from 3D models.