How Student Feedback Confirmed a School Building Design

If you want to know if a building’s design meets all the important criteria, ask the experts. In…

Double Duty: How We Blended Education and Accommodations

One of the great thrills in architecture is when we’re able to create a design that leverages one…

How to Design a Natural Playscape

As children, the first lessons we learn are about the natural world around us. And those lessons are…

Helping Young Minds Bloom with an Educational Greenhouse and Gardens

Slate School is an independent elementary school in North Haven, CT. Its 25-acre parcel is a beautiful plot…

What Goes Into the Design of a New Elementary School Campus?

One of the most important characteristics for young students to possess is curiosity. For one elementary school in…

From Design to Construction: How Slate School Was Built

Every design and construction project is unique. How well the parties involved address a project’s particularities is a…

Greenwich Academy: A Case Study in Interactive Design

One of the best things about being an architecture firm that has had success in a wide range…

How to Work with Architectural Review Boards

Founded in 1827, Greenwich Academy provides college preparatory education for girls at a day school on a 39-acre…

Sustainable design for a new elementary school

One of our current projects, which we couldn’t be more excited about, is designing a nature-based independent school,…

Designing a nature-based school

Recently, we have been asking ourselves how to design to support the educational philosophy of curiosity and nature-based…

Case Study: Early Childhood Center – Sustainable Construction

How do we incorporate sustainability into an early childhood center building?   Completed in 2013, this early childhood…

Case Study: Early Childhood Conversion

OVERVIEW Located in an existing building attached to a Lutheran Church, this early childhood head start facility will serve…