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Daly Genik, Camino Nuevo High School This charter high school houses 500 students in Silver Lake, a multi-cultural community adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. It is the third project, in a series of four that the firm has designed for the charter school client. The schools were...North AmericanDaly Genik, Camino Nuevo High SchoolPeter Gluck and Partners, The East Harlem... The project is an independent, not-for-profit, year-round middle school that affects change in East Harlem by recruiting at-risk students from low-income families. Our charge was to find an affordable and creative solution to address the pragmatic...North AmericanPeter Gluck and Partners, The East Harlem...Architype DialogueAllied Works Architecture, Booker T.... The Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a building that supports the production of young artists. Where the school excels in the academic preparation of its students, it aspires to forge rigorous, creative thinkers...North AmericanAllied Works Architecture, Booker T....Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, St. Albans... The Innovation is evident in Marriott Hall from the perspective of the student. The design team took special care in developing the ”ideal classroom“ which improves the learning process and the relationship between student and teacher. The...North AmericanSkidmore, Owings & Merrill, St. Albans...Mahlum Architects, Gray Middle School The new Gray Middle School site and program are united within a sequence of layers – civic, school, and environment - that bring students, teachers and the community together to reinforce a shared identity and celebrate student achievement. At...North AmericanMahlum Architects, Gray Middle SchoolArchitype DialogueKohn Shnier Architects, Claude Watson School A landmark, at once urbane, accessible and distinct Claude Watson School for the Arts provides specialized training in both Fine Arts and the Performing Arts and facilitates a conventional Toronto District School Board curriculum for grades 4...North AmericanKohn Shnier Architects, Claude Watson SchoolArchitype DialogueLeddy Maytum Stacy Architects, The Nueva... SITE Founded in 1967, the Nueva School is an independent school serving more than 370 students from prekindergarten to the eighth grade. The school’s mission is to inspire passion for lifelong learning, foster social acuity, and develop the...North AmericanLeddy Maytum Stacy Architects, The Nueva...Brooks + Scarpa Architects, Green Dot Animo... The greatest challenge for the new Animo Leadership High School was posed by the site: undersized and split into two parcels separated diagonally across an intersection. The school building site was originally occupied by a single-story church and...North AmericanBrooks + Scarpa Architects, Green Dot Animo...Lehmann Fidanza & Associés, Elementary... The design concept was driven by the demand for a building that would facilitate and encourage social interaction among its users (schoolchildren). Traffic pattern and movement within the space inform the educational, social and architectural...GlobalLehmann Fidanza & Associés, Elementary...Architype DialogueStudio3, Olifantsvlei In October 2005 the first phase of the project started with researching, analysing and first drafts of ideas. In February 2006, Astrid Dahmen and Walter Prenner visited the sites in Johannesburg for field-studies and extensive discussions with the...GlobalStudio3, OlifantsvleiTezuka Architects, Fuji Kindergarten The request from the kindergarten directors was extremely simple in content: "we want you to make a Roof House for five hundred kindergarten pupils." The Roof House is a work we completed in 2001. The Roof House told us everything. “In summer...GlobalTezuka Architects, Fuji KindergartenJavier Larraz, Architect, Nursery School In... The building is located at the NW side of the new neighborhood of Buztintxuri (Pamplona) within an area including three additional public buildings. The main axis of the plot is on a north-south direction. West orientation, where the main entrance...GlobalJavier Larraz, Architect, Nursery School In...Architype DialogueJarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL, Oslo... The primary goal of the building project is to upgrade existing areas, replace temporary structures and establish new educational areas for specific needs. The project is divided into 3 phases to make possible continuous use of the school during the...GlobalJarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL, Oslo...Kadawittfeldarchitektur, Kindergarten... Kindergarten is the first stage of life where children should feel at home outside their own home. In contrast to earlier times, modern childhood is shaped by a fairly early schooling. The possibility of moving freely in publicly accessible spaces,...GlobalKadawittfeldarchitektur, Kindergarten...José Adrião Arquitecto, Ouca Crèche and... TERRITORY The site where the new equipment is to be located is mainly composed of agricultural parcels, forestry production and urban areas that spread, from a central nucleus, in a random way, creating single housing units. In its whole, these...GlobalJosé Adrião Arquitecto, Ouca Crèche and...Architype DialogueWORK Architecture Company, Edible Schoolyard The school yard project at P.S. 216 converts an asphalt parking lot in Brooklyn into a lush edible garden where students plant, harvest, and cook the crops that they have grown. The kids learn through the care of doing, engaging their senses in...GlobalWORK Architecture Company, Edible Schoolyard