BROOKLYN, N.Y. — As the innovative Brooklyn Prospect Charter School continues to grow, new facilities have been developed to keep pace with expansion and demand. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme school, along with designer Loci Architecture, recently celebrated the opening of several new learning spaces in both BPCS locations.
LOS ANGELES — Plans to equip 650,000 Los Angeles Unified School District students, teachers and principals with iPads, is now delayed. The Los Angeles County School Board continues to disagree on issues such as contracts, web security and curriculum, and has voted to temporarily scale back the iPad initiative.
RICHARDSON, Texas — The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) dedicated the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building on Nov. 7, more than two years after construction began in summer 2011.
NEW YORK — COFXFOWLE Architects, a joint venture between Los Angeles-based CO Architects and New York-based FXFOWLE, designed a seven-story building for the nursing school at the Columbia University Medical Center campus in
ROCHESTER, Mich. — The $64 million Oakland University Human Health Building (HHB) debuted in August 2012 and recently became the first LEED Platinum-certified building on a university campus in the state of Michigan.
WASHINGTON — The Booker T. Washington STEM Academy in Champaign, Ill. recently received the 2013 James D. MacConnell Award at the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) Annual Conference & Exposition in Indianapolis. Recognizing excellence in facility planning, the MacConnell Award is considered CEFPI’s most prestigious honor.
LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Clover Park School District (CPSD) recently opened the new Carter Lake and Hillside elementary schools in Lakewood. Both schools were built adjacent to their existing locations, which were torn down when the project was completed this past summer.
WINTER PARK, Fla. — Rollins College recently celebrated the opening of the $30 million Archibald Granville Bush Science Center, a newly renovated and expanded interdisciplinary science facility.
HOUSTON — The new Sue Gratehouse Pope Elementary School recently opened to students of Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.
BOSTON — The City of Boston recently announced plans for a new $261 million facility to serve students of two deteriorating urban high schools. If built, the shared structure will be the most expensive public school ever constructed in the state.
