Educational

Convent of the Sacred Heart, Library 1100 Architect refurbished the library at Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls K-12 school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Located in an early 20th century landmarked building, the project integrates modern design elements while maintaining the library’s historic character. [...]

Germantown Academy, Tinker Lab and Science Classrooms As part of our ongoing work with Germantown Academy, a PreK–12 private school in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 1100 Architect created a new maker space designed specifically for younger students. The “Tinker Lab,” as it is now known, is equipped with [...]

The Berkeley Carroll School, Library & STEAM Space For an independent school in Brooklyn, 1100 Architect designed a collaborative STEAM laboratory, additional classrooms for arts and sciences, and faculty office space, to accommodate the school’s evolving curriculum and growing enrollment. The STEAM facility allows students [...]

Brooklyn Friends School, Library & Makerspace For Brooklyn Friends School, an independent preK-12 school in Downtown Brooklyn, 1100 Architect designed this library as a shared learning environment. In what had been a series of smaller rooms, the design creates an open space to provide more flexibility and [...]

University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House Perry World House is a new center for global engagement located at the heart of the University of Pennsylvania campus. For this project, 1100 Architect preserved a portion of an historic house built in 1851 and merged it with [...]

Koenigsblick Kindergarten This new childcare center in the growing Riedberg development of Frankfurt, Germany was designed as “a park in the Kindergarten” that encourages connections between interior and exterior space. The building’s U-shaped layout has two purposes: it frames a partially enclosed courtyard, and it acts as a [...]

Brown University, Onley-Margolies Athletic Center For Brown University’s Olney-Margolies Athletic Center (OMAC), which originally opened in 1981, we designed a complete renovation, bringing what had been an outdated facility up to contemporary standards. Guided by history and tradition, we transformed OMAC into a showcase football and training facility with state-of-the-art environments [...]

The Berkeley Carroll School, Performing Arts Center For this project, 1100 Architect transformed an 80-year-old church into a contemporary black-box theater space that serves as the new home of the Berkeley Carroll School’s performing arts program. The design—which includes a stage area, control booth, green room, and [...]

Germantown Academy, Innovation Lab and Makerspace For Germantown Academy, a private preK-12 school in Pennsylvania, 1100 Architect designed the Beard Center for Innovation, a 21st-century learning environment that provides space for collaborative, hands-on learning. Transforming what had been a little-used computer lab and a portion of [...]

The Dalton School For The Dalton School, a nationally renowned K–12 private school in Manhattan, 1100 Architect prepared a master plan for a 12,000-square-foot expansion and the complete renovation of its existing facilities. The master plan establishes a multi-phased strategy for linking five contiguous, historically landmarked buildings into [...]

Brooklyn Friends School, Renovations 1100 Architect’s nearly 20-year-long working relationship with Brooklyn Friends School began in 2000, when we enlarged and redesigned the school’s entrance lobby and cafeteria to improve functionality, enhance circulation, and better express the school’s mission and values. Starting in 2010, we started work on [...]

New York University, Department of Linguistics For NYU’s Department of Linguistics, 1100 Architect transformed an inefficient 19th-century manufacturing building into a cohesive and contemporary learning environment. The redesign improves communication between the department’s five divisions, maximizes the amount of natural light that enters the space, [...]

Brooklyn Friends School, Lobby and Cafeteria As part of our work with Brooklyn Friends School, we renovated its common areas, enhancing the student experience and improving efficiency. We enlarged and reconfigured the school’s entrance, lobby, and mezzanine level, improving functionality and circulation to help the school support [...]

Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School 1100 Architect fully renovated and expanded the facilities at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI), helping the school support its rapidly growing enrollment and creating a more cohesive student experience. The project included [...]

The New School, Lobby and Student Lounge For this new lobby and student lounge at The New School, 1100 Architect converted the ground floor of a landmarked 1906 commercial building into a contemporary lobby and common space for an expanding university community. The design, which emphasizes light [...]

Brooklyn Friends School, Family Center To support the Brooklyn Friends School Family Center’s mission of teaching children through exploration and play, 1100 Architect transformed a former commercial interior into a warm, bright, and child-friendly space. Upon entering, visitors are guided to classrooms and administrative areas along a curved [...]

Robin Hood Library Initiative The Robin Hood Foundation’s library initiative is aimed at providing underserved New York City public schools with quality libraries, and 1100 Architect has partnered with the organization on the design of six such libraries. For the first of these, at Public School 16, in Staten Island, [...]