Finding Your Natalie
While recently searching through the "memorabilia boxes" in my garage, I came upon the 20-year-old bumper sticker: "Educate Jackson Whole." This slogan cleverly added a "W" to the town’s name…
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The Three Dimensional Egg
The Green Spaceship," as students have aptly nicknamed the Lake Zurich Elementary/Middle School, captures the essence of the 220,000-square-foot facility, which is both green in design and operation, as well…
Technology in Schools: the Benefit of Collaboration
As I packed for my summer trip, I was amazed at how much space I allocated to adapters and cords. You know – the digital camera and charger base, the…
Clean Learning
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…
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…