The Park School Renovation and Expansion
Brookline MA

Programming and Design for a new 25,000 square classroom addition in Brookline.

The design of the addition provides the kindergarten through ninth-grade school with new flexible teaching spaces and enabled the expansion of existing undersized classrooms. The siting of the new wing establishes continuous circulation around an existing courtyard - reinventing the back of the school as a prominent entry portal for the Park community. The classroom wing also establishes a bridge connection to the newly renovated library - the physical and symbolic center of the school.

In adding to the 1971 structure designed by Earl Flansburgh, the new work complements and respects the iconic characteristics of the much-admired modernist building and its site context, while reflecting the community and teaching models of Park School today.

The project represents a full realization of the campus master plan completed by Chan Krieger Sieniewicz in 2001. The design earned CKS a 2009 Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects and the AIA New York Chapter.