Access for All

GREENVILLE, S.C. — After years of struggling with access and mobility issues, officials at Greenville County Schools opened J.L. Mann High School, a magnet school that puts an emphasis on science and mathematics and can accommodate all of the district’s special-needs students.

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Design Share 2007 – Global Learning

Awards programs, regardless of the industry, provide an opportunity to reflect on the year’s innovative trends and key projects deemed the best-of-the-best. The 8th Annual DesignShare Awards Program pushes the…

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New Sidwell Friends Middle School Certified LEED Platinum

Sustainable design concepts can take hold in a variety of different ways. Some school planners are forced to take a subtle approach, incorporating design techniques that offer the most cost-effective solutions for communities that are still not sold on the legitimacy of the green building. Other planners have the luxury of stretching their arms and grasping new ideas that push the boundaries of what can be done to produce high-performance, sustainable schools.

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Cultural Connection

The Paschal Sherman Indian School in north central Washington State marks the first time the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has ever undertaken a design-build education project. By using the…

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Recreation Transformation

The new student recreation complex at the University of Missouri ("Mizzou"), Columbia, is like none before. An amalgam of the 1905 Rothwell Gymnasium, the 1929 Brewer Fieldhouse and a 1987…

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Tilt-Up Skeleton

Washington County School District officials, together with contractors and architects, have actualized a functional prototype intermediate school that complements the colorful sandstone hills and red soil of southwestern Utah. The…

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Symphonic Sails

When planning the new Music Education Facility at Central Washington University, Studio Meng Strazzara, the architect of record, designed a building that deviates from the modern collegiate gothic style seen…

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