Brooklyn Childrens Museum
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| Brooklyn Children's Museum | |
| Designer | Hardy-Holzman-Pfieffer |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Date | 1977 |
| Building Type | children's museum |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban park setting |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | Brooklyn Ave. and St. Marks Ave. |
| Notes | -- |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Brooklyn_Childrens_Museum.html |
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Commentary
"For the first time since it was founded in 1899, the museum now occupies flexible spaces specifically designed for its programs. Rather than creating a new building to replace the original house-museum, the design called for a submerged facility that allows Brower Park to expand over the museum's roof. The museum's design involves a continuous juxtaposition of forms, materials, and spatial experiences. The process of discovery begins as one enters through a kiosk (which formerly served the Queensboro Bridge), passing by grain silos and highway signs that evoke and define the museum's presence below. A 180-foot-long ramp breaks at each of the museum's four exhibition floors to provide access to a diverse, multilevel changing space."
— Mildred F Schmertz. Hardy Holtzman Pfieffer Associates: Buildings and Projects. 246.
"This underground museum—a four-level, open-plan facility—offers kids a bounty of hands-on learning experiences in highly original ways. It's topped by a playground that parades highway signage, a silo, and a subway kiosk that serves as the building's entrance. Inside there's a 'people tube' that carries sluiceways of water and swirls of neon as well as visitors; there's also a greenhouse of plants, a lucite jungle gym that replicates a molecule's structure, and many other attractions."
— from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p43.
Address
In Brower Park at the intersection of Brooklyn and Saint Marks Avenues.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. repetitive field diagram, p171.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Mildred F. Schmertz. Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects, 1967-1992. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-8478-1480-7. LC 91-29480. NA737.H29A4. p246. upper level plan drawing, f3, p56.
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