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]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13826 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:10:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13826-continuing-education-vertical-school-expansions Sauerbruch Hutton’s copper-clad rooftop expansion of the Berlin Metropolitan School projects out over the existing building’s courtyard. Photo © Jan Bitter Sauerbruch Hutton’s copper-clad rooftop expansion of the Berlin Metropolitan School projects out over the existing building’s courtyard. Photo © Jan Bitter To support the new CLT addition, the architects took advantage of spare capacity in the shear walls of the structure below. Photo courtesy Sauerbruch Hutton Image courtesy Sauerbruch Hutton Image courtesy Sauerbruch Hutton A new gym, designed by Murphy Burnham & Buttrick for the Grace Church School in Manhattan has a boomerang-shaped roof invisible from the street. Photo © 2018 Francis Dzikowski/Otto A jack slab with springs provides an acoustic break between the new gym at the Grace Church School and the classrooms below. Photo courtesy MBB Image courtesy MBB From the exterior, Cottrell and Vermeulen’s new top floor at Streatham & Clapham High School in London appears almost as though it has always been there. Photo © Anthony Coleman The interior of the Streatham & Clapham rooftop addition looks more contemporary than the exterior, with structural elements that include glulam columns that branch and cross, and CLT ceiling panels. Photo © Anthony Coleman School buildings can encourage children to be more physically active, helping develop their bodies and their brains.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13176 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 06:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13176-continuing-education-active-design At Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia, a “hedge” includes child-size cubbyholes that can be occupied in numerous ways. Photo © Alan Karchmer Discovery Elementary. Photo © Alan Karchmer Students can travel between floors on a slide. Photo © Lincoln Barbour Instead of relying on solid walls and partitions, designers differentiated spaces at the SAGE school in Missouri, with bright hues and changes in floor finishes. Photo © Alistair Tutton Instead of relying on solid walls and partitions, designers differentiated spaces at the SAGE school in Missouri, with bright hues and changes in floor finishes. Photo © Alistair Tutton At St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s in New York, the architects designed a variety of outdoor environments to suit vigorous and quiet play. Photo © Frank Oudeman Inside, they created a small gym with a climbing wall in space reclaimed from mechanical services. Photo © Peter Aaron / Esto Stairs are made inviting with the inclusion of daylight and a quote from the Declaration of Independence. Photo © Frank Oudeman Lentzl@bnpmedia.com (Linda C. Lentz) Infused with a welcome transparency, a public elementary school opens to a burgeoning community and its children

]]> 1501-public-school-330-murphy-burnham-buttrick.asp Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7299-public-school-330-by-murphy-burnham-buttrick P.S. 330 brightens Northern Boulevard in Corona, Queens, with a graphic powder-coated aluminum entrance. Photo © Ty Cole Largely clad in precast concrete panels to save time and avoid weather-related delays, the building features unimpeded high-impact glazing at grade, offering views through its ground floor and into a glass-lined basement “gymatorium." Photo © Ty Cole On the second floor, the architects devised classroom-door portholes at two heights and lowered display cases to accommodate kindergarten and 1st grade students. Photo © Ty Cole The view from the roof reveals the playground and louvers on the building’s south side. Photo © Ty Cole Generous glazing in the building’s brightly-tiled northwest stairwell provides plenty of daylight, as well as views of both the neighborhood and Manhattan (to the west.) Photo © Ty Cole Drawing courtesy Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Drawing courtesy Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Largely clad in precast concrete panels to save time and avoid weather-related delays, the building features unimpeded high-impact glazing at grade, offering views through its ground floor and into a glass-lined basement “gymatorium." Photo © Ty Cole Daylit public areas are detailed with wood-slat ceilings, built-in benches, and a 13-foot-wide corridor, 5 feet wider than the norm. Photo © Ty Cole Sunlight streams onto the cafeteria’s pumpkin-orange vinyl-tile floor as kids enjoy lunch. Adjacent to the schoolyard and glazed public corridor, the friendly eating area also overlooks the gym-cum-auditorium, or “gymatorium,” a well-equipped space, lined with acoustic concrete masonry units, that has a stage and tiny dance studio at one end. Photo © Chuck Choi Grade classrooms are on the building’s quiet south side, where louvers outside the windows deflect glare and solar heat gain and upper operable glazing units provide unobstructed child-height vistas. Photo © Ty Cole A built-in bench on the blue-themed fourth floor looks onto a mobile by Terence Gower that hangs in a double-height area of the library. Photo © Chuck Choi A built-in bench on the blue-themed fourth floor looks onto a mobile by Terence Gower that hangs in a double-height area of the library. Photo © Chuck Choi Prominent display cases and large portholes on the doors enliven the upper floors, such as the orange-themed third floor. Photo © Chuck Choi The lower level “gymatorium” Photo © Chuck Choi