Firm Information Koning Eizenberg Architecture, AIA California Council 2009 Firm of the Year, was established in 1981 by Hank Koning FAIA, FRAIA, LEED AP, and Julie Eizenberg, AIA, with Brian Lane, AIA, LEED AP assuming a managing principal role in 2003. Informed by a long-standing commitment to sustainable architecture and interest in strategic construction innovation, the firm has set new benchmarks for a range of building types from schools and museums to community places. We appeal to clients, agencies, and institutions interested in exploring and rethinking opportunities rather than accepting the status quo. Today, Koning Eizenberg Architecture is well known, with over 70 design awards, extensive publication, international exhibitions (including the Venice Biennale) and individual recognition of the principals. The principals leverage this credibility to influence policy, as well as to craft buildings that, by example, raise expectations for design in the public realm. For more information about the firm and its achievements please visit our web site at www.kearch.com.
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Meet the Principals Julie Eizenberg, AIA Principal in Charge of Architectural Design & Master Planning Julie Eizenberg is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, established in 1981. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm’s wide range of projects and is recognized for her expertise involving cities, non-profit agencies, educational institutions and private developers. Ms. Eizenberg is an astute observer and institutional iconoclast leading investigations that reshape the way we think about the conventional buildings of everyday living. Under her and partner Hank Koning’s lead, the firm has earned more than 70 awards for their projects, including 25 AIA awards and the AIA California Council Firm of the Year Award for 2009. As a result of her design direction, the firm has won two national competitions—Chicago Public School Northside, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which opened in November 2004 to widespread acclaim. Ms. Eizenberg teaches and lectures around the world, is a frequent advisor to the U.S. Mayor’s Institute on City Design and has recently completed a book titled, Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions. Selected Projects
John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, CA Wildwood School, Los Angeles, CA Children’s Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA Temple Israel of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica Village, Santa Monica, CA Hancock Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, CA Virginia Avenue Park Expansion, Santa Monica, CA Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA The Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA Farmers Market Expansion, Los Angeles, CA
License Licensed Architect, California, 1994 #25016 Education
Registered Architect, Victoria Australia, 1979 1981 / Master of Architecture II—University of California Los Angeles
Selected Lectures & Teaching Experience
1978 / Bachelor of Architecture—University of Melbourne, Australia Fall 2010 / Visiting Professor and Lecturer: Washington University in St. Louis June 2010 / Visiting Lecturer: Hangzhou China June 2010 / Visiting Lecturer: Nanjing China March 2010 / Lecturer: Iowa State University, Department of Architecture November 2009 / Lecturer: Tulane University Fall 2008 / Distinguished Lecturer: University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning Fall 2008, 2003, 2002 / Lecturer: SCIARC Fall 2005, Spring 2007 / Visiting Critic: Syracuse University School of Architecture 2005 / Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor of Architecture: University of Virginia School of Architecture 2005 / Meid Mentor Scholar-in-Residence: Marymount College Spring 2004, 1999 / Bishop Visiting Professor: Yale School of Architecture 2003 to present / Professional Fellow: University of Melbourne Dept of Architecture, Building & Planning Spring 2002, Fall 1994 / Harvard Graduate School of Design
Hank Koning, FAIA, FRAIA, LEED® AP Principal in Charge of Technical, Regulatory & Administrative Issues Hank Koning is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, established in Santa Monica in 1981. His vision and creative thinking have driven the firm’s approach to large-scale and urban design projects as well as the technicalities of smaller projects. He brings thorough material, sustainability, constructability, cost and code knowledge to building and site designs that evolve into sensible and practical solutions which are, at the same time, extraordinary. Under his and partner Julie Eizenberg’s lead, the firm has earned more than 70 awards for their projects, including 25 AIA awards, and was named the 2004 Residential Architect Firm of the Year. In 1992, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and, in 1995, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. A member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Mr. Koning continues to lead the effort in integrating sustainable design ideas into quality design for healthy, environmentally-friendly buildings. His community involvement and planning expertise have been acknowledged in his appointment to the Santa Monica Planning Commission, charged with shaping the future development of the city. Selected Projects
John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, CA John Adams/Santa Monica College Joint-Use Green Fringe, Santa Monica, CA Santa Monica Village, 160-unit housing, Santa Monica, CA Hancock Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA Century Building, Pittsburgh, PA Farmers Market Expansion, Los Angeles, CA Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Standard Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, CA Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA Oakwood School Masterplan and Expansion, North Hollywood, CA 5 Recreational Facilities for the City of Los Angeles, CA Simone Hotel (SRO), Los Angeles, CA Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, CA
License
2010 / Licensed Architect, New Mexico 1982 / Licensed Architect, California, #C13530 1979 / Registered Architect, Victoria Australia NCARB Certificate holder LEED Accredited Professional
Education
1981 / Master of Architecture II - University of California Los Angeles 1978 / Bachelor of Architecture - University of Melbourne, Australia
Selected Lectures and Teaching Experience
Spring 1999 / Bishop Visiting Professor: Yale School of Architecture Fall 1994 / Graduate School of Design, Harvard November 1994 / Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Lecturer: Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Planning, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988 / University of California Los Angeles
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Brian Lane, AIA, LEED® AP Managing Principal Brian Lane is a Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture and has overseen many of the firm’s award-winning community buildings and housing projects. His experience spans a range of project types for governmental, commercial, non-profit and private clients. Mr. Lane has led much of Koning Eizenberg’s recent affordable housing work and contributes technical knowledge and design experience in the production of multi-unit affordable and market-rate housing – family, lofts, special needs and mixed-use. His visualization and graphics skills, combined with his planning knowledge, have enabled numerous cities and agencies to evaluate planning and urban design strategies. Recently, he has contributed to the dialogue on emerging ordinances that will aid housing production in Los Angeles and is frequently called upon to share his expertise in community forums and public programs. Selected Projects
Oakwood School, North Hollywood, CA Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, CA Children’s Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 28th Street Community Center and Affordable Housing Trio of Gymnasiums, Pecan, Van Ness & Green Meadows, Los Angeles, CA Kings Road Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA Hollywood Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Abbey Apartments, Los Angeles CA Waterloo Housing, Los Angeles, CA Harold Way Apartments, Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica/LaBrea Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA Plummer Park Community Center, West Hollywood, CA Farmers Market Expansion, Los Angeles, CA Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
License
1989 / Licensed Architect, California #C20717
Education
1990 / Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania 1986 / Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo National Professional Practice Roundtable member
Affiliations and Forums
2007 / MOBIUS LA Affordable Housing Panel member 2007 / City of Los Angeles Housing Element Update Task Force, Co-Chair Sustainability Committee 2007 – present / Hollywoodland Design Review Board member 2006 / LA Mayor’s Housing Innovations Roundtable Steering Committee 2006 / Dwell on Design, speaker and panel member, “Affordability and the City” 2005 / Think Locally, Think Creatively, SCANPH panel on new housing ordinances in Southern California 2005 / City Works – Communities Under Construction, and Subdivide and Multiply, jury and panel 2005 / City of West Hollywood Mixed-Use Ordinance Task Force 2003, 2004 / City of Los Angeles RAS zone and Townhouse Ordinance Task Force 2005-2009 / USC School of Architecture critic
Austin Children’s Museum City
Austin, TX
Program
35,000 sq. ft.
Client
Austin Children’s Museum
Completion
Expected 2012
The Austin Children’s Museum values children’s questions, thirst for knowledge, and love for learning as the basis for a creative, inventive, competent, contributing, and scientifically literate society. The new 35,000 sq. ft. facility will stand 50% larger than their current location. The design focuses on maintaining the Museum’s values while accommodating interior and exterior exhibits, courtyards, and other public spaces. The building provides a community based “cornerstone” to the large new Mueller neighborhood context.
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Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh City
Pittsburgh, PA
Program
80,000 sq. ft. expansion and remodel
Client
Museum
Completion
2005
Awards
2007 Rudy Bruner Gold Metal Award 2006 AIA National Honor Award 2006 AIA California Council Honor Award 2006 AIA Los Angeles Honor Award 2006 AIA Pittsburgh Honor Award & Green Design Citation 2006 ID Design Distinction Award 2005 MBA Building Excellence Award: Best Project over $5m 2005 AISC IDEAS Merit Award, Cool Space Award 2005 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award
The Museum and its exhibits provide an interactive experience designed to appeal to all ages. A new entry and exhibition space connect a national register 1890s post office with a 1939 planetarium, highlighting the two historic stone landmarks with a contrasting steel and glass-framed space, wrapped in an ”articulated cloud” of translucent 5” hinged plastic flaps that move in the wind. When completed, the Museum was the largest Silver LEED museum in the country, featuring adaptive reuse, recycled materials, and passive shading.
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Temple Israel of Hollywood City
Hollywood, CA
Program
94,500 sq. ft. mixed use masterplan and phased development
Client
T.I.O.H.
Completion
Phase I completed, phase II is underway
Established in 1946, Temple Israel is located in a dense Hollywood neighborhood. Anchored by a historically significant sanctuary, the new masterplan proposes to invigorate the campus with 94,500 sq. ft. of new buildings, including a chapel in-the-round, a library, expanded elementary and pre-schools, a teen center, a social justice center, expanded offices, and underground parking. Various construction phasing strategies have been studied and evaluated in order to minimize disruption to the existing and operational pre-school and congregation.
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Virginia Avenue Park Expansion City
Santa Monica, CA
Program
A significantly renovated and expanded 9 acre park including 25,000 sq. ft of improvements
Client
City of Santa Monica
Completion
2005
Awards
2007 LA Buisness Council Architectural Award, Landscape Architecture 2007 Westside Prize Urban Solutions/Built, Westside Urban Forum 2006 Municipal Award of Merit, US Green Building Council
This expanded and renovated park has helped to unify an ethnicallydiverse neighborhood. Renovated warehouses and a refreshed 1960s community building introduce progressive ideas about form and ornament while providing spaces for children, teens, families, and seniors. Facilities include art rooms, movement spaces, a computer lab as well as fields, basketball courts, play equipment, and an interactive fountain outside. Virginia Avenue Park was the first park to be certified LEED silver in the country as achieved by onsite water management, adaptive reuse of buildings, daylighting, and sustainable materials.
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Children’s Institute Inc. City
Los Angeles, CA
Program
47,000 sq. ft. community spaces
Client
Children’s Institute, Inc.
Completion
April 2011
This 47,000 sq. ft. project entails the adaptive reuse and creative rehabilitation of two light-industrial warehouse buildings in a gritty inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood. On a tight budget, the design deinstitutionalizes the sensitive social functions of the organization, through a combination of innovative organizational planning and the limited insertion of simple (but creative) new architectural systems within the renovated existing building shell. The program includes a preschool, individual therapy rooms, administrative offices, and large multipurpose spaces for community programs. The completed project will provide much needed community and family services to this high-risk neighborhood and will serve as the regional operational headquarters for this rapidly growing non-profit organization.
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Los Angeles Farmers Market: North Market City
Los Angeles, CA
Program
90,000 sq. ft. new construction
Owner
A.F. Gilmore Co
Completion
2002
Awards
2003 Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence 2004 Los Angeles Business Council Architecture Award
Part of the larger original historical Farmers Market site, this standalone, three story mixed-use building (lower) incorporates ground level retail over an underground parking garage capped by two floors of offices. Designated as a city cultural site, the Market was more significant as a site of experience than the architecture—a collection of small vendors housed in an ad-hoc farmyard style. In 1998, plans to build an adjacent shopping center – The Grove – set in motion a complementary master plan for the Market. Centered on reviving and enhancing the historic property, the plan also facilitated pedestrian traffic between the two developments, while providing easy surface parking tor market patrons.
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Bike Center City
Pittsburgh, PA
Program
61 units, 6,000 sq. ft. commercial space
Client
TREK Development Group
Completion
2010
Awards
2010 AIA Pittsburgh Preservation Award 2010 Pennsylvania Commonwealth Award 2010 AIACC Award
The historic 68,000 sq. ft. (12-story) Century Building in downtown Pittsburgh was built in 1907. This expected LEED gold, adaptive reuse project now houses 61 units of mixed income housing (40% affordable) offering raised platform studios to two bedroom loft units. Amenities include a rooftop patio as well as a community room and gym on the 3rd floor. The ground level restaurant remains and floors 2 and 3 were gutted and renovated for office use. A Commuter Bicycle Center located on the North easement provides residents, and the public, secure bicycle storage and animates the street.
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Oakwood Elementary School: Playspace City
Los Angeles, CA
Program
12,000 sq. ft. performing arts/gymnasium facility
Client
Oakwood Elementary School
Completion
2007
The Oakwood Elementary School playspace comprises a 6,650 sq. ft. gym and 2,570 sq. ft. multi-purpose space with three potential stage areas for various performance and rehearsal needs. Vertical lift doors open the multi-purpose space to the outside. While on the inside, a Skyfold door suspended from the ceiling between the building’s two principal spaces allows for acoustical and visual separation. Support spaces include offices, bathrooms, kitchenpantry, and basement level storage. The building incorporates many sustainable features, notably a geothermal water source heat pump system. Polycarbonate exterior panels maximize day lighting and sustainable finishes and ventilation ensure a healthy indoor environment.
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Related Projects Adaptive Re-Use
Century Building Pittsburgh PA
Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA
The Standard Hotel Downtown Los Angeles CA
Planning
The Village Santa Monica CA
Urban Intervention Competition Seattle WA
Historic Farmers Market Los Angeles CA
Housing
Hancock Lofts West Hollywood CA
Takeout House Pasadena CA
Duane Apartment New York, NY
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Education
Wildwood Elementary Los Angeles CA
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
PS1 Elementary Santa Monica CA
Culture/Civic
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA
Virginia Avenue Park Santa Monica CA
Commercial
Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel Hollywood CA
Thornton Tomasetti Office Los Angeles CA
Gilmore Bank Los Angeles CA
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 2004 At the renovated Children's Museum, the building is the biggest exhibit of all
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At the renovated Children's Museum, the building is the biggest exhibit of all Sunday, October 31, 2004 By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In Maira Kalman's children's book "Max Makes a Million," Max the dog, an unpublished poet and canine-about-town, has a secure life with a childless, older couple but dreams of living in Paris. "There is an old Chinese proverb that says parents must give their children two things, roots and wings," Max says. "I have the roots. Now I want the wings." After he strikes it rich in the poetry biz, Max is able to fulfill his dream. Architects Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning remembered reading the story to their sons, Jak and Rem, now teens, when they were small. For the couple, "roots and wings" seemed just the right metaphor for their design of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's expansion and its mission. The Children's Museum was rooted in the past -- the old Allegheny Post Office building of 1897, which it had outgrown. It planned to expand into another historic structure, the former Buhl Planetarium, completed in 1939 and vacant since 1991. To link these Classical and Moderne buildings, Koning Eizenberg Architects of Santa Monica, Calif., proposed a glass lantern for their winning entry in the museum's design competition of 2000. The new wing also would be a metaphorical wing that would take children to new experiences and expand their worlds. The lantern's folded planes gave it the look of a giant rice paper lamp, which the museum said would be a http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/04305/403295.stm
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"Articulated Cloud" is the name of the wind sculpture that surrounds the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's new building, which links the existing museum to the former Buhl Planetarium. The project more than triples the museum's indoor space. Click photo for larger image.
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beacon and "night light," symbolizing care for children. But practicality soon reared its head.
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The Real Deal: Museum promises hands-on fun with "stuff"
"The Children's Museum was the first building we've done where Hank had no clue how we were going to build it," Eizenberg said at a talk to Carnegie Mellon University architecture students a few weeks ago. As it turned out, that lantern proved too expensive to build. Its basic idea, however -- linking the two historic buildings with a contemporary glass box -- was not only sound, but the simplest of all the solutions, and one that had minimal impact on the historic buildings. Around the same time, California-based sculptor Ned Kahn, who'd been commissioned to create an outdoor water sculpture for the museum, nixed that idea because Pittsburgh winters are too cold for it to operate year-round. Thus was born a collaboration between Kahn and the architects that generated a different kind of lantern, one whose glass walls are shielded from the sun by about 43,000 thin, translucent plastic flaps, each 5 1/2 inches square. When the wind ripples across the flaps, it creates waves of motion that look like clouds floating across the sky -- a subtle, sophisticated effect that, rather than talking down to children, speaks to the child in all of us.
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A decorative cow by artist Burton Morris stands guard on the second floor, looking out to the stairway leading to the Children's Museum's entrance. The "Articulated Cloud" wall on the exterior of the building is in view from this vantage point. Click photo for larger image.
The piece, called "Articulated Cloud," allows the building to achieve a synthesis of art and architecture, one that is a playful, mysterious and inventive expression of green design. The flaps hang on stainless steel rods attached to a boldly graphic aluminum frame that is visible from within the new building's secondand third-floor exhibits. They act as sunscreens that will keep the glass from overheating. "Articulated Cloud" is one of the $22.5 million expansion's many green features that will have the building itself functioning as its largest exhibit for
children. "The architecture is as much about experience as knowledge and object," Eizenberg said in an e-mail. "We did want to highlight the beauty of the old buildings as well as add the kinds of spaces that you couldn't make then but can now. We wanted to show how things are made and demonstrate environmentally sustainable strategies." It will be the first children's museum to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The museum's staff and board decided early on that the expansion would be a green design. Its first year of planning was funded in part by the Heinz Endowments, the foundation leader in green design in Western Pennsylvania. Green features that would earn LEED certification were a requirement of the design competition, funded by the National Endowment for the http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/04305/403295.stm
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Arts. "It's a natural extension of our mission, and it goes to best practices," said architect Chris Siefert, the museum's project manager. "We are establishing a national model for children's museums." The museum will draw all of its energy from renewable resources, purchasing wind and hydroelectric power from a green energy company and generating solar power with its own photovoltaic collector panels on the roof of the Buhl wing.
The museum's education department is working with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance to develop interpretive programs for children about the building's green features. One of its principles -- water conservation -- can be demonstrated at the touch of a button: the dual-flush toilets that allow users to choose between a big flush and a little flush. The wall that encloses the museum's outdoor play area is made of wire-wrapped, rec-tangular bundles of masonry building materials, from bricks to balusters, recycled from this and other building projects. It recalls, on a small scale, Alexandr Brodsky's elegiac "Palazzo Nudo" installation Downtown at Seventh Street and Penn Avenue, gone but not forgotten.
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The Garage Workshop exhibit comes together as the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh prepares for its grand re-opening Saturday after a multimillion-dollar expansion project. This space, originally part of the planetarium, includes this new sculpture by Henry Loustau, who was working on it last week.
Click photo for larger image. With the expansion, built by Mascaro Construction Co., the museum more than triples its indoor space, from 19,000 to 74,000 square feet. The public and exhibit areas will grow from about 11,000 to approximately 40,000 square feet.
The new building, erected over a now-closed portion of Allegheny Square West street, is the museum's new main entrance. Its first floor is a gathering place where visitors will begin to make choices about what to experience first. They can turn left into the old Post Office building, whose first floor houses the art studio. They can head directly upstairs and visit the Mister Rogers, Waterplay and other exhibits. Or they can turn right, into the Buhl's formerly windowless grand hall, now a cafe illuminated by a new floor-to-ceiling window. Giant, inflatable sculptures designed by Tim Kaulen and powered by the rooftop solar collectors are expected to be installed this week. Eizenberg, who saw something similar used to light a path from parking to a jazz concert held in a Hollywood cemetery, said she used them to bring down the vast scale of the room.
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The museum commissioned 12 artists to produce playful work for the expansion, almost all of it interactive. One of the most prominent, installed in the Buhl's former planetarium dome, is Henry Loustau's ball maze, in which children can launch kickball-sized plastic balls onto wires and follow their descending path. Alyssa Cwanger, Post-Gazette
A Classical frieze at the roofline of the Buhl building is now visible inside the new building. In the background, Vickie Watson, Children's Museum project assistant, walks through the Waterplay exhibit. Click photo for larger image.
The Buhl basement has become the children's cafeteria for school groups, and its lower level, where for decades the Christmas train display was housed, now holds a theater and a radio studio, from which the Saturday Light Brigade will broadcast from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday mornings on WRCT (88.3 FM). Show host Larry Berger is developing programs to use the studio throughout the week, some involving the museum's education department and its on-site and
other partners. One of museum director Jane Werner's big ideas for the expansion was to create a campus of organizations devoted to child advocacy. The museum, Siefert said, will function like a town square, a gathering place where visitors and organizations will come together for experiences and discourse about children, families and the community. The Buhl's upper floors will house the Reading is FUNdamental program and Childwatch Pittsburgh, which focuses on at-risk children. In February, two model, daylong preschool programs with art-based curricula are scheduled to open, run by the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh Learning, Research and Development Center also will be housed there and will track a group of children over time. The Buhl building's new window provides a view of the venerable Allegheny branch of Carnegie Library, another feature of the children's campus. Max, dog poet and big dreamer, would approve.
(PG architecture critic Patricia Lowry can be reached at plowry@post-gazette.com or 412263-1590.) Back Copyright Š1997-2004 PG Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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