The Albany City School District, Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School, received a Project of Distinction in the publication’s national Design and Architecture in Education competition.
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School is a 140,400 sf facility that fosters and inspires intellectual, physical and cultural development for both students and the community-at-large. The school serves 650 students from sixth to eighth grades. The three-story atrium is the life-force of the school, organizing and connecting major programmatic spaces, affording way-finding, and offering diverse opportunities for social and educational interaction. The three-story classroom structure adjacent to the atrium houses a sixth-grade “house” located on the first floor, a seventh-grade “house” on the second and an eighth-grade “house” on the third. A unique color theme for each academic “house” establishes an identity for each grade. An administrative suite is centered on each floor along angled corridors that counteract long visual runs and provide optimum student supervision.
