Featured here on Archinnovations.com back in August of last year, Rafael Viñoly Architects’ expansion of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, has been officially certified LEED Silver, making it New York City’s first LEED-certified museum. In addition, it has been awarded a 2009 Building Brooklyn Award in the “Institutional” category from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Real Estate and Development Committee.

Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, the building is an amalgam of great aesthetics, functionality and sustainable design. Ahead of its time, the building, completed in 2003, seamlessly integrates efficient structure, sustainable technologies and "green" materials into an efficient and dynamic building, setting the new benchmark for convention centers and large exhibition spaces around the world.

Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Rafael Viñoly Architects presented their vision for the development of the new Stanford Hospital on Monday. 

The unveiling marks an exciting milestone in advancing the hospital's plans to build for the future, increase capacity to meet the healthcare needs of the community, and design with earthquake safety standards in mind.

Rather than creating the typical base-and-tower hospital building, the firm has proposed a modular plan that can be easily adapted for different uses, allowing for both incremental expansion of the hospital building and a horizontal massing strategy that matches the low-rise campus context of Stanford University and the Stanford Hospital & Clinics.