Welcome to the Neighborhood
Although Kodet Architectural Group designed the Jordan Park School of Extended Learning and Adolfson & Peterson was responsible for its construction, the people who built this school are the residents…
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The Wave of 21st Century Schools
With 21 years of experience as an architect, facility planner, and strategic consultant, James Brady, AIA, REFP, is the outgoing president of the Council for Educational Facility Planners International. It…
Security and Education: A Best-Case Scenario
Chesterton High School is known for its championship speech and debate program, not school security. The Indiana public school has been dominant in speech and debate for so long that…
The School Construction News & Design Share Awards 2001
The Awards Program 2001, the 2nd annual international awards competition sponsored by School Construction News, the Design Share Web site, www.designshare.com, and C/S Group, www.c-sgroup.com, included 62 projects from five…
Critical Review
Making this awards program unique is its mission to focus less on aesthetics and more on the design of effective learning environments, a goal that allows the jurors some room…
Understanding the importance of post occupancy evaluations
Lasting change and innovation comes from the reflection of past experiences and the application of that knowledge to future projects. The Awards Program 2001 program emphasizes post-occupancy evaluations (POEs) in…
Evaluation Process
All of the projects were reviewed in light of six national design principles developed by the U.S. Department of Education, and endorsed by the American Institute of Architects, the Council…
Honor Awards
Peel Education and TAFE Campus, Mandurah, Australia Spowers Architects and Jones Coulter Young Architects This project, built on the site of an existing Tertiary and Further Education (TAFE) campus, is…
Optimizing Roof Performance
The roof, a seemingly simple structure whose purpose is to protect the structure beneath it, can be one of the most problematic and difficult parts of a building. However, optimizing…
No Blanket Security Measures
Jack Swanzy, AIA, REFP, joined Jefferson County, Colo., Public Schools in 1992 as coordinating architect, managing a $325 million bond program. In 1998, Swanzy became director of planning and design;…