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Originally Posted by nath05
It's amazing....my first job out of college was with a firm that primarily did schools, and believe me, even in the wealthy suburbs, every expense is spared in the construction of these things. Everything is designed to be as standard as possible....drab carpet, drab VCT tile, drab drop ceilings, drab fluorescent lights, etc. Many school districts wouldn't even allow bright-colored finishes, as they feared that would make kids excitable and difficult to control. Seriously. It's almost as though they WANTED the learning environment to resemble, as much as possible, prisons.
Anyways, it's too bad that that schools aren't built with that same ind of attention to detail anymore. Does it possibly reflect a change of values in our society? Hmmmmmm....
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I don't think that's universal. Seattle, Tacoma, and our suburbs are building or renovating a lot of very cool schools. In the core cities it's generally rehabs and the results vary from good to jaw-dropping (see Stadium High School at
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/l...5326108c.html) or
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=446756. New construction tends to be pretty cool also (Mount Tahoma High School at
http://www.blrb.com/portfolio/tahoma.aspx).