Brooklyn Children's Museum
Handsome New Lobby of Brooklyn Children's Museum
Not too shabby!
Above is a photo of the Brooklyn Children's Museum's sparkling new lobby -- part of the Rafael Vinoly-designed addition that doubled the size of the hands-on museum for little ones to more than 100,000 square feet.
The official unveiling for the Crown Heights museum is on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 9:00 am.
City's First LEED-Certified Museum to Open This Fall
The Brooklyn Children's Museum -- the hands-on instititution popular with tykes from Tremont to Poughkeepsie -- is slated to reopen as the first LEED-certified museum in New York City on Sept. 20, according to a spokeswoman for the project and Interior Design.
The Rafael-Vinoly-designed addition to the Crown Heights insititution will, according to the design mag, double the size of the museum to more than 100,000 square feet. The addition, covered in 8.1 million (!!) very, very yellow ceramic tiles, will presumably allow for more exhibition space (and maybe even bigger digs for Fantasia, the 17-foot-long Burmese Python?).
To achieve LEED-silver certification, the addition has "rapidly renewable and recycled materials" like "bamboo and recycled rubber flooring. read more »
