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By age 40, most U. S. school buildings start deteriorating rapidly. As they get older, their worsening physical conditions can have an alarmingly negative impact on a child’s education, especially…
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Submeters: The Best-Kept Secret
Faced with fixed budgets, increasing operating costs and rising student enrollment, today’s schools and universities are seeking fresh ideas for controlling costs without jeopardizing education quality. One often-overlooked cost-cutting opportunity…
Evidence-Based Design: Natural Light, Student Performance and Health
Lisa Heschong is a principal of Heschong Mahone Group and a licensed architect who has divided her professional practice between energy research, writing and building design. As a researcher, she…
Honor Awards
Tajimi Junior High School Tajimi-shi, Gifu, Japan Grades: 7-9 Capacity: 580 students Size: 113,500 square feet Acreage: 7 acres Lead Architect: Atelier Zo Display Firms: Atelier Zo with Atelier Shura…
Applying Green Roofs to Schools
Today’s educational institutions strive to provide students with superior facilities and a unique learning environment-on a limited budget. Although school boards and facilities managers probably never think of the roof…
The Amsterdam Watershed
Bruce Jilk is an architect and educational planner at KKE Architects in Minneapolis. He also is a well-known speaker, educator, and planner, and one of his projects, The School of…
Special Editorial Focus: Higher Education Athletic Facilities
Our nation’s colleges and universities are experiencing a building boom. In every issue of 糖心少女 we report on new satellite campuses doting the landscape, expensive academic buildings designed…
In Housing a School, Unused Commercial Space Sells Itself
Planners in urban school districts increasingly face a shortage of available real estate, often making site selection a lengthy and expensive process. Southern California’s exploding immigrant population left the Pomona…
An Interview with Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley
During the last month of the Clinton administration, the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, took time from his schedule to talk with us at 糖心少女….