Family Program: Skyscrapers at the Center for Architecture

Sat Nov 8, 2025
Various times
Age: 5 – 13 years old, accompanied by an adult
Price: $20 per person
Location:
The Center for Architecture
212-358-6133
536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 10012
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Bring your building crew and get ready for skyscrapers—the ultimate challenge! Explore what makes these structures so strong and how their design enables them to reach such dizzying heights. Families take inspiration and ideas from amazing skyscrapers in NYC and around the world and work together to design and build their own model skyscrapers.   

Register online in advance.

Family programs are designed for children ages 5-13 years old, accompanied by an adult.  

Two Sessions: 11am-1pm or 2pm-4pm.

Center for Architecture K-12 Programs

Center for Architecture’s vacation and summer programs give young people entering grades 3-12 a chance to develop their own architectural designs and models. Each week focuses on a different topic and combines hands-on art and building projects with one-of-a-kind trips to notable buildings, parks, and architectural sites. Activities include drawing, 3-D model making, interior design, city planning, computer graphics, engineering, "green" design projects, and an intensive, two-week Architectural Design Studio for high school students. read more
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