This is Newton North High School. Part of it anyway.
This is actually not Newton North High School, it is only a rendering. they probably built a model also.
Robert Campbell had a typically excellent review of the new high school in the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe. He was critical of what he perceived to be a lack of coherent visual organization on the outside of the building, but was impressed with the way architect Graham Gund handled interior circulation. Campbell chided critics of the $200 million price tag, correctly noting that a lot of factors drove the cost up and Newton was ultimately happy to get such an impressive investment in the future of education.
I think they got a pretty good deal. Maybe the architect could have saved a few dollars by using some more right angles, but so what? The students who go there will probably have a marginally better experience than they would have had at the old high school. We can devote our resources to things like this, or endless wars in faraway lands.
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