Student-focused spaces bring community feel to heart of college campus [Grayslake, IL] – For years, a rarely used student communal space resembling a sunken living room sat at the center of College of Lake County’s (CLC) main campus. Today, that same space is reimagined as a light-filled Student Commons connected to a new café, Welcome […]
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Addison Early Learning Center and Hamilton Elementary School Selected for Display at Leading Education Conference
Educational Environments Exhibition to showcase top public school design at 2016 Illinois Association of School Boards’ Joint Annual Conference [Chicago, IL] – A jury of school administrators and architects selected Addison Early Learning Center (Addison, IL) and Hamilton Elementary School (Moline, IL) for display at the 2016 Joint Annual Conference of the Illinois Association of […]
LaSalle-Peru High School Model Classroom Improves Engagement, Interaction, and Concentration
Students and educators agree: it’s time to upgrade the cramped, stuffy, and dated classrooms in their 90-year-old school. “There’s no way I could work in this building,” said a LaSalle-Peru High School (LPHS) visitor at the start of this school year. “It’s way too hot.” No air conditioning is just one of many signs of […]
Mundelein High School Expansion Emphasizes STEM Education and Workforce Skills
Flexible spaces support active learning, display career-based programs, promote community and business partnerships [Mundelein, IL] – Mundelein High School’s (MHS) science labs hadn’t been updated since the school was built in 1961. That’s 55 years. Classes were cramped. Equipment and furniture were outdated. So two years ago, Mundelein High School District 120 was thrilled when […]
Explore before you build: the space utilization study
Facility costs are rising. Capital funding is scarce. What can higher education institutions do? Most colleges and universities know that their facilities have tremendous value. They also know it costs much more to build new than to remodel. More than ever before, institutional leaders are exploring every option to maximize reuse of their existing facilities. […]