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    Creating educational environments that enable students and staff to perform more effectively.

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    Editor's Focus: All Thumbs Keep Right

    July 1, 2015
    Education administrators and facility planners must not only incorporate technology into lesson plans, but also into how facilities are designed and planned to more effectively...
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    Editor's Focus: Fit and Function

    May 1, 2015
    All spaces of a school facility should be looked at as “learning” spaces, as today’s dynamic does not confine teaching and learning to the classroom—putting more emphasis on the...
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    Facility Planning: Justifying the Future

    Feb. 1, 2015
    Bringing a new school design to fruition involves identifying the need and creating a vision.
    Michael Grimm
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    New Manhattan school sensitive to the needs of autistic students

    Oct. 20, 2014
    Manhattan STAR Academy, which was designed by Gran Kriegel Associates, is housed in a 9,000-square-foot space on the third floor of the new Lincoln Square Synagogue.

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    Breadth of purpose

    May 1, 2014
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    Adding color to interior walls helps stimulate studentsrsquo brains and can create an improved learning environment that boosts studentsrsquo academic performance
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    Educational Interiors Showcase 2013 Citation Winners

    Aug. 15, 2013
    View the Citation winners from the 2013 Educational Interiors Showcase design competition.
    Virtual BIM capabilities can help education designers attain superior visualization and building system coordination results

    Strategic Virtual Solutions for Schools

    Aug. 1, 2013
    How BIM can help a school project throughout the design process.
    The 2013 Educational Interiors Showcase jury Dave Hill Eric Byrne and Robert Keller

    Meet the 2013 Educational Interiors Showcase Jury

    Aug. 1, 2013
    Jurors met to judge this year's Educational Interiors Showcase competition.

    2013 Educational Interiors Showcase Commentary: Innovative Interiors

    Aug. 1, 2013
    The jury used specific criteria when determining citation winners.