A white flagpole out front brandishes a wind - snapped flag, and just inside the heavy metal - and - glass entrance doors are six Depression - era frescoes portraying industrious Americans gainfully employed for the national good: building airplanes, working in engineering and industry, peering into microscopes. (edutopia.org)
First, it worked with two other New York firms, Cooper Robertson and James Carpenter Design Associates, to create an expansive glass entrance to the visitor center in the shape of a crescent moon. (nytimes.com)
The Brooklyn Museum of Art's expansion by the Polshek Partnership (also responsible for the new glass - skinned planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History) includes a sloping glass entrance pavilion in the place where the Brooklyn Museum, like many Beaux - Arts palaces, once had a grand stairway. (artnews.com)