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Samuel Brighouse Elementary School

January 16, 2012

A two-story, 50,590-square-foot public K–7 elementary school with classrooms, offices, a prekindergarten, special education classrooms, a computer lab, a library, a gymnasium with a stage, and an adult literacy center serving the community.

South Shore International College Prep High School

Mining Modernism for Students and the Community: A high school with an academic program exploits early-Modernist vocabulary.

Suzanne Stephens

January 16, 2012

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As many American architects know too well, public schools in the U.S. lose out big-time on the scale of invention compared to their European and Asian counterparts.

Stoddert Elementary School & Community Center

January 16, 2012

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Completion Date: August 2010 Owner: District of Columbia Department of General Services Program: A two-story, 43,000-square-foot addition to a 17,900-square foot public elementary school built in 1932. The project modernizes the existing two-story academic building and adds an additional classroom wing, as well as a gymnasium, a cafeteria, a media center, a multipurpose room, a stage, and an amphitheater. The new eastern end of the building—which includes the gym and the multipurpose room, among other spaces—can be closed off from the rest of the school for after-hours community functions. Design Concept and Solution: The original 1932 masonry building made up

Summit Elementary School

January 16, 2012

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A two-story, 55,597-square-foot public elementary school with a prekindergarten.

Leutschenbach School

A School With a View: A Swiss city in transition employs bold architecture as a functional and symbolic catalyst for change in a traditional education system.

Linda C. Lentz

January 16, 2012

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The schoolhouse as we know it has been upended in Leutschenbach, Switzerland, a quiet suburban corner north of metropolitan City of Zurich, Switzerland, where the city is transforming a former industrial site into a mixed-use, middle-class neighborhood infused with green spaces.

Evelyn Grace Academy

Raising the Bar in Brixton: Winner of the 2011 Stirling Prize, this daring charter school aims to bridge architectural and social divides in a regenerating historic neighborhood.

Christopher Turner

January 16, 2012

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Set back from the road, Zaha Hadid's Evelyn Grace Academy in South London zigzags across its small site with jagged angles of bare concrete, glass, and silver-spray-painted aluminum.

Gloria Marshall Elementary School

January 16, 2012

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Completion Date: September 2010 Owner: Spring Independent School District Program: A two-story, 105,391-square-foot public elementary school with large-volume communal spaces—a cafeteria, a gymnasium, and an auditorium—concentrated in a central core, with classrooms arranged along the perimeter. The school also includes a library, a music room, a computer lab, an indoor "tree house" on the second floor, and a garden/outdoor classroom at the entrance with a river table and pond. Design Concept and Solution: The district normally uses a two-building prototype for all its schools, but for Gloria Marshall the board wanted to rearrange the program to conserve natural resources and

Sustainable Solutions

At a time when many districts are tightening their belts, the green schools movement is gaining steam. We check in with administrators and architects, along with nonprofit groups that are stepping up to help.

Jenna M. McKnight

January 16, 2012

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On an unseasonably warm December day, Phoebe Beierle is making the rounds at various facilities in the Boston public school system.

W. F. Kaynor Technical High School

January 16, 2012

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A three-story public technical high school with 212,000 square feet—82,000 renovated, 130,000 new—including classrooms, offices, science labs, a library, a gymnasium, a wood shop, and an auto shop.