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I don't believe this has been done before. High schools across the nation use buildings that are sometimes architectural gems in the community. Many cities are building new schools with a modern twist. Please post the best designed high schools around the country for each respective city based on their architecture. Should be fun and interesting to see what kind of buildings our youth are learning in these days. This is meant to be a friendly thread so please keep the trash talk and bashing for other threads. Thanks! Let the battle begin.
I like LAs older high schools as well. One big deference between West Cost high schools and the rest of the country is that they are less enclosed and more outdoor oriented due to weather considerations.
I think that Emerson building is arguably the best new piece of architecture to go up in LA since I moved here at the beginning of the decade.
I like LAs older high schools as well. One big deference between West Cost high schools and the rest of the country is that they are less enclosed and more outdoor oriented due to weather considerations.
I think that Emerson building is arguably the best new piece of architecture to go up in LA since I moved here at the beginning of the decade.
Munchitup can you post some of the older LA high schools? I've seen a few nice mid-century ones and there's that gorgeous old stone one near Silverlake/Los Feliz, but I don't know any of them by name.
Ditto on Emerson, btw. I wish we could get something of that caliber downtown.
Yeah for some reason the public architecture in LA is often far better than private. High schools is one example, and low income housing is another. There are a couple low income projects in downtown that are built by high profile architects and are stunning.
I like old brick high schools with Greek/Roman style columns and large glass windows. My high school looked like this, built in 1929 obviously in NJ. Any that look like this are most beautiful to me. I've always loved columns and that Roman influence, it's why I love American government buildings so much and why I had a field day in Rome.
Sorry, here's a picture of what I mean. It's not the best (it is my picture btw) but at least you can see the length of it and just see the columns and the little tower at the top. This is in small town NJ but is quite common for the region, so any high school in NYC that happens to look like this gets my vote, though city schools tend to look much different at least in Manhattan. Not sure as much about the outer boroughs. This to me is a classic high school design.
Sorry, here's a picture of what I mean. It's not the best (it is my picture btw) but at least you can see the length of it and just see the columns and the little tower at the top. This is in small town NJ but is quite common for the region, so any high school in NYC that happens to look like this gets my vote, though city schools tend to look much different at least in Manhattan. Not sure as much about the outer boroughs. This to me is a classic high school design.
Older NYC schools even in outer boroughs tend to be huge (they were the biggest school buildings in the Americas at the time). We do not have 1-3 storey schools. I think a typical school would be in a 7-12 floor range and take up a whole block. We do have schools similar to the one in your pic though, for example Fort Hamilton HS or Midwood HS in Brooklyn, but again much bigger buildings.
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