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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 网曝吃瓜 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 网曝吃瓜….
More Developers Enrolling in Campus Housing
Baby boomers heading to college in the 1960s created the last campus housing building spree, but now the boom echo is creating a similar phenomenon and colleges and universities are…
Artful Instruction
Students and staff sharing their school with construction workers during an expansion or renovation project often experience frustration at not knowing what’s going on around them. However, Heery International, a…
Duke University’s Winning Team
The year 2000 was a good one for Jerry Black, director of facilities management at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He and his department received the Award for Excellence in…