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From the start of the design process for Santa Clara Unified School District’s new preK-12 campus, discussions moved beyond brick-and-mortar to focus on envisioning the future of education in Silicon Valley.
A new K-12 school in Washington, D.C., is the first school in the world to achieve both LEED for Schools Platinum and WELL Platinum, according to its architect, Perkins Eastman. The John Lewis Elementary School is also the first school in the District of Columbia designed to achieve net-zero energy (NZE).
The River Grove Elementary School in Oregon was designed for net-zero carbon and resiliency to seismic events, storms, and wildfire. The roughly 82,000-sf school in a Portland suburb will feature a microgrid—a small-scale power grid that operates independently from the area’s electric grid.
Two new high schools manifest nuanced design differences.
The task of providing safe and secure environments in which our children can learn is both complicated and far-reaching.
The $65 million Canoe Landing Campus brings much needed social infrastructure to the 20,000 residents of Toronto’s CityPlace towers.
There’s more to space utilization than how often a room is occupied. What happens inside an occupied room is just as important.
With the completion of the athletic facility upgrade—dubbed the Arden Project—students will have access to state-of-the-art facilities.
The art of designing schools lies not in just understanding what makes a functional classroom, but in how successful we are in creating a wide array of educational options for teachers and students within the school environment.
Prefabrication of the six buildings’ walls reduced construction time by a year.
Surveys of school districts and colleges, though, raise questions about financing for future projects.
Bristol Community College wants to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Post-recession slump suggests a settling in at a “normal” level similar to the mid aughts.
Its growth strategy includes adding 1.2 million sf of space for teaching, housing, and research.
