Pinkerton Clubhouse was designed as a “vertical playscape” and has become a bright anchor for the North Harlem neighborhood.
In the shadow of a viaduct on 155th Street in New York City’s Harlem, the Pinkerton Clubhouse shines like a lantern. The top of its flat asymmetrical roof is wrapped in semitransparent polycarbonate; stretches of windows on its facades emit a warm glow thanks to the bright orange paint on the interior walls.
The 45,000-square-foot, four-story…