Expansively spreading across the rise of a hill, the crescent-shaped Charles R. Drew Charter School for Junior and Senior Academies proudly embraces its pastoral campus near downtown Atlanta. “Curving the building was obvious, with this setting,” says Manuel Cadrecha, design principal of Perkins+Will (P+W), the architects. The 39-acre site, where groves of loblolly pines and bald cypress dot the landscape, is located near the Villages of East Lake, a mixed-income rental community, and the early-20th-century East Lake Golf Club, as well as the nine-hole Charlie Yates Golf Course.
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