The Giddens School and Lake Washington Girls Middle School complex brings two independent schools together on a single urban campus, balancing shared resources with distinct identities in a tightly programmed, three-story building between Seattle’s Beacon Hill and Central District neighborhoods.
The new Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School is now complete. Located in a densely populated urban neighborhood in Seattle—at the intersection of Union Street and 13th Avenue in Capitol Hill—the new six-story middle school was designed by LMN Architects to leverage the limited site and connect with adjacent school buildings and the neighborhood.
Kenneth Trump, president of Cleveland-based consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services, has 25 years of experience at public and private schools in urban, suburban and rural settings. He has worked with jurisdictions in all 50 states and has authored several books and articles on school safety. He discussed the topic with School Construction News during a phone interview.
