Design
The National Building Museum Built a Giant Ball-Pit 'Beach'
The D.C. museum has got the big, fun, dumb, summer thing down.
The National Building Museum has got the big, fun, dumb, summer thing down.
On the Fourth of July, the museum is opening “The Beach,” the third installment in its summer architecture exhibition series. Snarkitecture, an emerging Brooklyn design firm, erected a 10,000-square-foot enclosure and filled it with 750,000-something plastic balls—and the museum is asking viewers to dive right in.