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Salisbury University Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons / Sasaki

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Strategically located at the core of the campus, Salisbury University's new Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons significantly transforms how teaching and learning occur on campus. The new building allows the university to bring all of their academic support programs together in combination with a state-of-the-art library, classrooms, cafe, 400-seat assembly space, and the Nabb Research Center—a special collections library dedicated to the history and culture of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Common ground for all of the university's academic disciplines, the Academic Commons fully supports all modes of study and learning, from individual contemplative study to collaborative, technology-rich group engagement.

Indian Mountain School Student Center / Flansburgh Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Indian Mountain School (IMS) is a PreK-9 independent boarding school located on a 600-acre campus in Lakeville, Connecticut, serving 186 students. As a result of a campus study conducted for IMS, Flansburgh designed an 8,750-gsf music, art, and technology building specifically designed for collaborative, cross-disciplinary, project-based learning. The design features welcoming spaces including art classrooms that have sliding barn doors that open onto a shared gallery, and offices, and meeting spaces that open onto a Visitor Commons. The flexible design provides a common space, which functions as a project space during the day and a student lounge in the evening. The kitchenette and café help make it a great hangout space. The form of the building recalls a traditional New England barn with slopped tin roof, exposed timber and board, and batten siding. This traditional form is made innovative by a large area of glass, angled in plan, and fastened directly to the post and beam construction. The glass allows dramatic views of Indian Mountain, the school’s namesake. The western side of the building, particularly the common room, opens directly onto the landscape every classroom has a door to the outside.

Hotchkiss Biomass Power Plant / Centerbrook Architects & Planners

Igor Fracalossi — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The exterior design embodies seemingly contradictory missions: creating an arresting presence to beckon visitors, while simultaneously not upstaging the building’s pristine environs at the periphery of an independent school’s campus. Sited at the bottom of a sloping landscape, between woods and wetlands on one side and a golf course on the other, the building presents a low and undulating profile. The 16,500-square-foot structure is capped by a vegetated roof that is the color of surrounding flora, helping it harmonize further with the landscape – almost disappearing from some vantage points.

Esther Eastman Music Center, Hotchkiss School / Centerbrook Architects & Planners

Christopher Henry — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

At The Hotchkiss School, an independent boarding high school in Connecticut, the music program was far more important to the School than its aging, subterranean facilities implied. The quality of student performances was consistently excellent, but except for the occasional above ground concert in the chapel, the musicians were out of sight to visitors and students alike. So plans were undertaken to renovate an existing drama theater into a venue for musical performances and expand it to provide practice rooms and a rehearsal hall.