Outdoor classrooms
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Notre‑Dame‑du‑Paradis Elementary School
Notre‑Dame‑du‑Paradis Elementary School stands in the rural municipality of Dudswell, in the Eastern Townships of Québec, as a typical 1960s school building set within a scenic landscape of fields and forests. The renovation and expansion project extends the life of this familiar structure by introducing new learning and sports facilities, while significantly improving accessibility and upgrading the existing building envelope and systems.
Charles Lanteigne
Charles Lanteigne
Charles Lanteigne
The extension houses a double gymnasium with its support spaces, a dedicated classroom for four‑year‑old kindergarten, a preschool dining room and new changing rooms. An elevator now connects the three existing floor levels, res... More
News • News • 21 Mar 2022
‘All buildings eventually end up in the ocean’ becomes the driving theme behind Mississippi’s Marine Education Center
‘All buildings eventually end up in the ocean,’ says Chris Snyder, Marine Education Center Director for the Marine Education Center (MEC) in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Casey Dunn
With this statement in mind, Lake|Flato Architects set out on their design for this new education and outreach arm of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
Casey Dunn
With the previous Center destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, a second storm impacting the site during schematic design, and Hurricane Nate causing disruption during the construction phase, it was clear to the project team and local community that the new facility would need to be resilient, sustainable, and durable with emphasis on su... More