NARRATOR One of Holocaust Museum Houston’s iconic design features is the large cylinder that rises next to the sloped roof. Architect Mark Mucasey: MARK So, when we designed the building in 1996, we started with a very, light tan brick box that in fact was an old doctor's office. We did our expansion of the building contrasting that old brick box. What we used on the theater at that time was a brick that we wanted to use, a contrasting dark color. In fact, we used a burnt brick, a dark, fired, brown iron spot brick, as it was called. The metaphor for the theater at that time was, of course, the crematoria that would rise up out of the death camps as the chimneys. Fast forward 23 years later, our museum is yearning to create an amount of hope out of this whole experience for our visitors. And, we came up with the idea of converting that symbol of death, which was the cylinder, to a symbol of hope. We placed a ribbon of windows around the top of the chimney, and those windows will be lit in the evening, and they will glow in our facility and they will effectively become our Ner Tamid, our eternal flame, for the museum. And in this way, we have changed that metaphor of death to the metaphor of light and of hope. NARRATOR Museum CEO, Dr. Kelly Zúñiga: KELLY We're really excited because at night it beams a beautiful white light. It sends such a beautiful halo of purity and hopefulness from the museum, which is so important.