Seoul Foreign School, New High School
The New High School is a beautiful and efficient machine for contemporary learning, rooted in its context while shaped by international best practices. Peter Schubert, Design Partner Traditional Korean architecture is marked by openness and privacy: a delicate balance of bringing the landscape inside, while at the same time providing separation. Two of the primary […]
Lycée Français de New York
Located on a through-block site, two five-story structures are connected by three full-lot floors and a north-south bridge at the second level. Shared program spaces such as libraries, cafeteria, auditorium and gymnasia unify the school at the three lower levels. The school is organized around a central landscaped rooftop courtyard accessible to both upper and […]
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
The building’s large glass façade embraces its surroundings, visually inviting the community inside. On the inside, a choreographed sequence of spaces inspires a creative community of students to take a memorable journey. We have created a building that brings a little bit of Times Square to Astoria, Queens. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner Supported by […]
The Mercersburg Academy, Burgin Center for the Arts
Subtler interventions, none of which rely upon the stagnating reuse of historical architectural form, are occasionally needed to contribute to the evolving hierarchy of meaning and memory in traditional campus contexts. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner The building defines the eastern edge of the central open green space on this arcadian campus, which includes an historic […]
Shanghai Children’s Library
The Shanghai Children’s Library is the first step in a larger comprehensive plan that merges architecture and landscape to create a visionary indoor-outdoor learning environment — a “Reading Park”. Building upon the library design’s merging of building and landscape, this master plan envisions strategic, episodic updates, additions, and revisions that catalyze the park’s existing potential […]