Brooklyn Children’s Museum added a new $32.2 million facility with a bold design youngsters find inviting. Its glittering envelope of yellow ceramic tiles creates a striking attraction in the ethnically diverse residential neighborhood of Crown Heights. The building achieved LEED-Silver certification, making it the first green museum in the city.
Rafael Violy Architects of New York designed the 55,000-sq-ft addition for the New York City Department of Design and Construction, and Skanska USA Building of New York completed the project in November 2008.