Brooklyn Children’s Museum

The yellow, red and green allow the building to stand out in the urban landscape of Brooklyn, and accentuate that the museum is geared at a young target group of children, who come here to explore, play and learn. It is a convention to make architecture for children colourful, so Viñoly is in that sense spot-on. But the Children’s Museum is no outlier in his work, which displays a distinct preference for sophisticated boldness. This translates in many of Viñoly’s projects into eye-catching forms and the use of striking colours. In that sense, there is a clear continuity between his first projects for the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires, which he designed as a twenty-something in Argentina in the late 1960s, the Children’s Museum, and recent works such as his controversial Walkie Talkie Tower in the City of London, with its concave facade, and the super slender 432 Park Avenue residential tower in Manhattan.