Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a children's museum in El Paso, Texas with a barrel-vaulted roof that almost resembles a drawing of a cloud.
The studio designed the roof of El Paso Children's Museum to have four segments, three of which are curved and one that is pitched.
Upside-down, arched windows extend from the peaks down tiled walls in the renderings, with one window sticking out from the gabled volume.
These openings are mirrored by other upright curved windows rising from the tall glazed walls running along the lower levels.
The ground floor will include free exhibitions
The ground floor will host free exhibitions, a cafe and the entrance. A 60-foot-tall (18-metre-tall) atrium that stretches up three floors from this level will house a climbing structure. Images show the interiors will be filled with similarly playful creations, made by exhibition designers Gyroscope, such as a huge hanging star, ribbed pavilions and metallic slides.

Snøhetta won a competition to design the El Paso Children's Museum in 2018. It will be located in the arts district of El Paso's Downtown area, near the US-Mexico border, and under one kilometre from border-crossing station El Paso del Norte.
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