Description
The $30 million redevelopment of South Park High School – a majestic building featuring 10-foot-high classroom windows, a brick-and-limestone façade with copper coping, and elegant wood doors – restores the facility to its full glory while creating state-of-the-art learning spaces. Undertaken in the fourth phase of a $10 billion reconstruction of the Buffalo Public Schools, renovations include roof and coping repairs, exterior cleaning, repointing, window replacement, and restoration of main entrance doors as well as interior improvements to the school’s classrooms and auditorium. A new gymnasium addition with lobby, locker rooms, support spaces, and two health classrooms features a bypass corridor with large expanses of glass that draw light into the interior spaces; an exterior materials palette of cast stone, brick, and vertically mullioned curtainwall harmonizes with the historic building’s grand legacy.