O'Neill McVoy inserts mass-timber children's museum into 1920s Bronx powerhouse

Brooklyn studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details.
O'Neill McVoy Architects inserted the Bronx Children's Museum into the second floor of the rectilinear building "with old and new in a symbiotic relation heightening the qualities of the other," the studio said.
The Bronx Children's Museum is located on the Harlem River
Located on the Harlem River and Mill Pond Pa