If one fully experiences the Children's Museum, it's apparent that's it's all (or almost all) about the exterior glass wall sculpture. Climbing up the new addition, the kids eventually play within the box that it encloses, an a wonderfully-illuminated space (PDF link, see page 7 for image) unlike any other in the city. Likewise at night, the glass box becomes a beacon for the neighborhood, one equally old and up-and-coming, housed between the Mattress Factory and the Andy Warhol Museum.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Koning Eizenberg Architecture

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