Blair International Baccalaureate Middle School
The Learning Curve California Style: The design of a new middle school within a residential community uses a classical plan to achieve modernist goals. On a sunny afternoon in Pasadena, California, an...
View ArticleBaltimore Design School
Learning by Design: An early-20th-century industrial building sets the scene for a dynamic public school model in the midst of a growing arts community. Built in 1914, the four-story industrial...
View ArticleEarl Shapiro Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Starting at The Top: Carved masses and open spaces characterize the university-affiliated school for experimental education. Like the institution it serves, the new early-childhood learning center of...
View ArticleDunbar Senior High School
'This building has light, energy, and life!' exclaims Dunbar Senior High School's principal Stephen Jackson. 'I love it, love it, love it!'
View ArticleCranbrook Kingswood Girls' Middle School
Program: A single-story, 47,000-square-foot private middle school with a block of classrooms and labs for each of the three grades. A trio of performing arts spaces (dance, drama, and chorus) is...
View ArticleCarl Sandburg Elementary School
Program: A two-story, 66,580-square-foot public elementary school for 600 students. The building, which replaces a roughly 40-year-old school on the same site, consists of a steel-structure classroom...
View ArticleErie Elementary Charter School
Program: A four-story, 17,000-square-foot addition to the kindergarten- to eighth-grade Eerie Elementary School’s existing quarters in a former Catholic school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood....
View ArticleFayetteville Montessori Elementary School
At the beginning of the 20th century, Maria Montessori wrote, “Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the...
View ArticleErie Elementary Charter School
Program:A four-story, 17,000-square-foot addition to the kindergarten- to eighth-grade Erie Elementary School’s existing quarters in a former Catholic school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood....
View ArticleWilliam Jones College Preparatory High School
In the Loop: Perkins+Will stacks a dense program into a school building that rivals its lofty downtown-Chicago neighbors. Picture this: in the shadow of Chicago’s famously tall downtown, a public...
View ArticleTeikyo University Elementary School
Since opening in 2005, Teikyo University Elementary School had outgrown its quarters in one of the university’s existing buildings. The school wanted to give each department its own space while...
View ArticleNorth Atlanta High School
Open for Business: A visionary plan transforms a former IBM office complex into a high school that’s anything but textbook. At a time when many K'12 architects are designing neighborly clusters of...
View ArticleKanu o ka ʻĀina Learning ʻOhana
Program: A 9,100-square-foot pre-K-through-fifth-grade building and a 6,200-square-foot sixth-through-twelfth-grade building for a charter school serving native Hawaiians of all ages. Located on...
View ArticleHunter's Point Campus
View Master: Located on the East River in Queens with panoramic views of Manhattan, a new public school by FXFOWLE lives up to its arresting site. When the Academy for Careers in Television & Film...
View ArticleGreen Dot 'nimo Leadership High School
Energy Boost: On a tough site, a public school touts its forward-thinking mission with design, while providing a model for sustainability. Above the door to every classroom at 'nimo Leadership Charter...
View ArticleErgolding Secondary School
A longer school day prompted the client and architects to rethink the way education is delivered in Germany and how it is housed. German schools traditionally close at 1 p.m., but to accommodate...
View ArticleLomas del Peyé School
Cartegena, Colombia, according to a Lonely Planet entry, is the “undisputed queen of the Caribbean coast.” Its azure beaches attract droves of tourists, and its colonial-era buildings and cobblestone...
View ArticleCharles R. Drew Charter School
A charter school in Atlanta unites junior and senior academies in a dynamic expression of imaginative teaching approaches. Expansively spreading across the rise of a hill, the crescent-shaped Charles...
View ArticleIntrinsic Charter School
A series of structures that once comprised a lumberyard is transformed into an innovative school for grades 7 to 12 in a northwest Chicago neighborhood.
View ArticleGarden School
A sprawling high school on the outskirts of China's capital connects students to environmental issues and offers a progressive approach to teaching. At Beijing's Garden School, students can sit on...
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