A four-story, 17,000-square-foot addition to the kindergarten- to eighth-grade Erie Elementary School’s existing quarters in a former Catholic school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Everything in its Place: In Northwest Arkansas, a design firm responds to a hemmed-in site for a Montessori elementary school with a playfully inventive plan.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Maria Montessori wrote, “Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.”
Learning by Design: An early-20th-century industrial building sets the scene for a dynamic public school model in the midst of a growing arts community.
Built in 1914, the four-story industrial building at 1500 Barclay Street in Baltimore’s North Central Historic District was innovative for its time, with expanses of glass and a unique ventilation system designed by the architect, Otto G. Simonson, to improve working conditions.
A Monument to Tragedy and Heroism: In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, a museum honors and celebrates the culture and long history of Polish Jews, which stretches far back beyond the tragic events of World War II.
For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work.
Modern to the Core: Challenged to create a building in which to showcase his own work, a celebrated Japanese architect constructs a series of unique spaces within the shell of a historic house.