Albert Vecerka/Esto: www.esto.com		CMP Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
		In 2000, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh held a national invited competition to expand from its home in the Old Post Office Building into the adjacent long-vacant Buhl Planetarium. Koning Eizenberg's winning design joins these two landmarks with a three-story steel-and-glass contemporary structure encased in a shade of fluttering translucent panels that designed in collaboration with environmental artist Ned Kahn. Opened in November 2004 and incorporating many sustainable design features, the Museum is the largest Silver LEED-certified museum in the country. Slideshow. Floor Plan. Read articles in Metropolis and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Awards 2007 Rudy Bruner Gold Medal 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 for Best Project over $5-million 2005 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum 2005 AISC IDEAS Merit Award Cool Space Award Publications I.D. 52nd Annual Design Review, July/August 2006 Architectural Record, June 2006 Metropolis, April 2005 Metropolitan Home, May 2005 h (the Heinz Endowment magazine), Summer 2005